Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 59, Decatur, Adams County, 10 March 1945 — Page 6

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35,000 Fans To See Tourney Bailies Today JiidianapolM, March 10—(UP) — baskedbal! tournament swings into the semi-final round today with only four of the “sweet sixteen” teams remaining in the field scheduled to survive the day’s firing. (Most of the attention centered on 'lndiana University’s spacious j gymnasium at ißloomington, although there will be no empty seats or lack of thrills at the other "super regionalt,” at Butler university in Indianapolis, Purdue University in Lafayette and Muncie fieldhouse £t Muncie. Two afternoon games at the four semi-finals will shave the state championship field to eight and then at 8 p. m. elimination round will narow the list to the four teams (which will compete at Ind-i ianapolis on St. Patrick’s day for j the most coveted tHoosier sport' title. (An estimated 35,000 fans will watch the third act in the four act drama of naming the ruler of I . "Hoosisr madness.”' j , The ali-thne record in semi-final < attendance /was made possible by ' 1 switching of the northern, central i , and southern semi-finals from high ] school fieldhouses to college gymn- 1

aslums. Rated by many ae the greatest' semi-final meet in Hoosier prep | cage history, the Bloomington event | will make or break, at least for a j week, the bid of Evansville Bosse j to become the fifth team ever able 1 to capture two straight state championships. Wingate repeated in 1914. Le-' banon won twice in a row in 1917 I and 11919. Franklin annexed three j titles in 1920, 19>21 and 1922. And Washington's hatchets made it “Washington, 700, in 1942.” ißut the veteran-loaded Bulldogs of Bosse have their iwork cut out for them. They tangle with the torrid shooting Bedford Stonecut-1 ters in the 2:®fl< p. m. game and. i if victorious, probably will meet Jasper’s Wildcats in a "Cat and ; Dog” battle tonight. Jasper, defeated only by Bosse - ; and then by a 41-38 score, plays ' strong Terre Haute Gerstmeyer at ' 1:30 p. in. The Gerstmeyer Black Cate notw own 24 victories in 26 I tried. IF ire works at the Lafayette and Muncie * semi-finals also were set for the 1:30 P. M. round, with Bos-: ee-Bedford the oniy outstanding [ gome on the 2:80 p. m. schedule. At Lafayette, the 8,4'55 sane will' be treated to a Wildcat vs Wildcat j , clawing match in the first game. | ' * W A<< ' » 13 * W—w* ■■■ A— r is J ’ o o Due to the length of this pic- j i ture and to comply with the I CURFEW LAW, our Box Office j Will close at 9:15 on Sunday j i night. On Monday, and Tuesday nights, the Box Office will | open at 6:15, show starts at I 6:30, last show starts at 9:15. O — O SUN. MON. TUES. Continuous Sun. from 1:15 GARY COOPER INGRID BERGMAN “FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS” Akim Tamiroff, Katina Paxinou ALSO—Shorts 9c-40c Inc. Tax —o TONIGHT — “KIBMET" Ronald Coleman, Marlene Deitrich. Also-- ; Cartoon, News 9c-40c Inc. Tax i CORTI SUN. MON. TUES. Sun. Matinee—9c-15c until 4 ‘NIGHT CLUB GIRL’ Vivian Austin, Billy Dunn & “MARK OF THE WHISTLER” Janis Carter, Richard Dlx Evenings »c-30c Inc. Tax -—O—O ’ TONIGHT — “VIGILANTES OF DODGE CITY'* Bill Elliott ALSO —Last “Raiders of Ghost City.” 90-30e Inc. Tax.

Hammond high, victor in 15 out of its lust Id games, plays South Bend Riley, winner in 25 our of 27 games. (Muncie 'Central, tripped only once during a sizzling 14 game cloning drive, tangles at Muncie with ths northeastern Indiana conference Champions from Auburn. The I Auburn team boasts 22 triumphs against a pair of one-point de- • feats. <At Indianapolis, the 1:30 p. tn. opener brings together two teams with the best records of the 16 remaining in the tourney. Indianapolis Broad Ripple, however, held a wide edge over tiny Hope. Both won 25 out of 26 starts. Kokomo's Wildcats, the power at i Muncie, open defense of their semi- ■ final title against less-regarded : | Huntington at 2:30 p. m. The other 2:30 games match Oxford and Ix>g- | ansport at Lafayette and Covington j and Rushville at Indianapolis. Bedford, Kokomo and Evansville Bosse will be shooting for their third semi-ifinal championship in the 10-year history of the "super regionale." (Hammond was the only other quintet among the 16 to hold a semi-final crown. Hammond pulled the trick in 1938. O Intramural Tourney Opens Monday Night First round games in the intramural league tournament at the' junior-senior high school will be, played Monday evening, starting at ! 6 o’clock. Opening pairings are: Flashes vs. Bears; at 6:45, Hawks va Avengens; at 7:30, 'Eagles vs. Red-skins; at B:TS, Maroons vs. Hornets.

I The tourney finals will be play- 1 ' ed March 19 at 7 and 8 p. m. 0 JAP RESISTANCE (Continued From Page One) I island in the Bonins, north of | Iwo. The island was hit both | Thursday and Friday in support I of the Iwo operations. | Navy search privateers of : fleet airwing two bombed runways and other installations on Wake island Friday, and attacks on Kusaie and Ponape in the eastern Carolines and on the Palaus were carried out Thursday and Friday. • 0 Republican Is Named North Dakota Senator BismSFck, N. D., Mar. 10 —(UP) | —The Republicans gained an ad- i ditional seat in the U. S. senate ' today with the appointment of | Milton R. Young, 48, to succeed , Democratic Sen. John Moses, who died a week ago. i’oung, a Berlin “dirt farmer” who has been a member of the North Dakota legislature for 10 i years, was appointed last night by Gov. Fred Aandahl. The new ■ senator-designate, an avowed in- i ternationalist who said he favor- , ?d “some sort of organization for . the preservation of peace.” will j serve until the June primaries in | 1946 unless a special state elec- 1 tion is held before that time. I 0 Flood Danger Over In South Indiana By Unitpd Press j ■ The possibility of epidemic from I ' polluted water supplies confronted southern Indiana today but the flood danger apparently was over. Flood crests moved along the Ohio and the situation was described as under control in every section. Most of the communities inundated (by the swollen Ohio, Wabash and White rivers planned to reopen schools (Monday, and the estimated 4,000 families swept out. of their homes by the rising waters, began cleaning and repair work on their residences. —Q Treble Damages Suit Against Standard Oil — 'Hammond, Ind., March 10. • — (UP) — An OPA treble damages suit changing 'the (Standard Oil company of Indiana with price ceiling violations was on file in federal d&triot court here today. The suit asks treible damages as well as an Injunction to restrain the company from selling gasoline after 30 days if the company’s pricing records are shown to be improperly maintained. (Rea IE. Walters, regional OPtA administra- 1 tor, said the damages sought would amount to “Millions of dollars.” oi— To keep a 3 pound baby alive in a home which had an electrically operated incubator but no electric installations, a lineman single-handedly completed a mile of rural power line at Colleskill, N. Y., in 24 hours of continuous work. ———o ——- Trade in. a Good Town — Decatur

Democrats Fighting Delay To CCC Bill I Washington, .March In (I’P) ' House Democrats today appeared . lined up solidly against a ropu'bf llcan move to hold up passage of I the commodity credit corp. Bill | pending an investigation of alleged r Irregularities in the agency’s ac- . tivities. i The charges were outlined in . floor dilhate yesterday by Rep. . John Taber, R„ N. Y., who said i grain market speculators had made huge profits by tip-offs from inside CCIC, and that improper handling and mismanagement have caused j food shortages. - o | Surprise Move Made By Coal Operators j Washington, March 10 —(I’P) — i United I.Mine workers president I John I. I.i-Aie was caught completeI ly off guard today J»y a coal operators’ move that could very pos- 1 silbly prevent taking of a strike vote among the miners March 28. d.awis’s old foe. President Edward R. Burke of the southern coal producers association, petitioned the natinoal labor relations board last night to dismiss Lewis’ request for a strike vote under the Smith-tConnally anti-strike law. o Mt. Vernon Newspaper Publisher Is Dead Mt. Vernon, Ind., Mar. 10. —(UP) —Herbert. Leffel, Mt. Vernon news- i paper publisher, died at his home yesterday. The 67-year-old head of the weekly Mt. Vernon Western Star also .was prominent in Democratic party affairs. o — Virginia Baked Ham—Fried Chicken-Roast Beef-Sunday < Dinner. Ehler’s Restaurant. • ■ Wm 1 W /IW 1 I Mm. $ 1 I ' ill MARINE GUNNERY SGT. JOHN BASIIONE, Raritan, N. J., the first enlisted man to earn the Congres- ; sional Medal of Honor in World War 11, was killed by artillery fire in the assault of Iwo Jima while leading his machine gun platoon. His wife, the former Lena Riggi, Is a sergeant in the Marine Corps Women’s Reserve on duty in Oakland, Calif. Sergeant Easilone was i , awarded the Congressional medal I for his part in the Guadalcanal ’ I campaign. (International) - ..T. | r - . I W4f 4. ' ' A > IL ■■■' - - >/zs' * xffA ok * WHEN HER TROLLEY came to a halt, Alice Swank, 22-year-old San Francisco conductorette, walked to a nearby street car bam and gave birth to a baby girl, undetected, in a rest room. The infant was rescued when ita cries were heard from a trash container where, it is alleged, it was placed to dispose of it. The infant will live. The mother is shown in hospital (International) Virginia Baked Ham—Fried Chicken-Roast Beef-Sunday Dinner. Ehler’s Restaurant.

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TOKYO RADIO (Continued From Page One) of its kind ever issued by a Japanese war minister. FCC monitors recorded the broadcast. Another Tokyo broadcast heard : in London quoted Sugiyama as i saying that the war situation had become “extremely serious" far Japan. "The enemy, who is endeavor- i ing to end the war as quickly as possible, will use every means to reach his goal.” Tokyo said. Thus the enemy in the immediate future will for certain land on i the Japanese mainland.” 0 Democrat Want Ads Get Results'

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WEAK COUNTER(Continued From Page One) was scored on the vital invasion gate. One enemy bomb missed the 1300 foot span by inches, splashing water 50 feet into the I air in the faces of doughboys marching across the bridge. McDermott said shells from German long-range guns emplaced , far east of the river raked Rem-' agen continually yesterday and in > the early morning hours today. American possession of the ■ hills just east of the Rhine pre- ! vented direct German observation, however, and made it impossible *for the Nazis to lay a (dunging fire on the bridge.

Allowance Payments To Discharged Vets Indiana veterans of this war, temporarily unemployed, received [ $8,8(5’5 in readjustment allowances under the G. I. Bill of Rights, Ever- ' ett L. Gardner, director of the emI ploymen't .security division anI nounced. These allowances were paid to 448 dischargees. iSix marine corps, 15 navy and 65 army veterans made initial applications for the allowances. The j 86 applications exceeded by 11 the ’ total received the previous weeks. JAPS REPORT HEAVY (Continued From Page One) I sonnel areas, fuel and supply i dumps at Zamboanga, causing I explosions and numerous fires, I the communique said., | Mitchell medium bombers at I 'he same time swept over the ! Sulu Archipelago stretching from Zamboanga to Borneo to raid Sanga Sanga airdrome on Tawitawi island. 33 miles from Labian Point on the northeastern tip of | Borneo. 0 RUSSIAN FORCES (Continued From Page One) said the resistance being offered i by the Nazi garrisons of Breslau, encircled Silesian capital, and Frankfurt and Kuestrin, on the Oder line before Berlin, were setting a pattern for the forthcoming battles of Stettin, Danzig and, "above all, Berlin.” “Even if the Russians are now in the forefield of the fortress of Stettin, even if the front should move to Danzig'and Marshal Zhukov be gathering his forces on the Oder for a push to Berlin —dheir heaviest battles of the present offensive are ) still before them,” transocean said. “They will be fought on the barricades, in .the streets, and in every house and attic.” North of Berlin, the first White Russian army rapidly was clearing the east bank of the Oder opposite i Stettin. Nazi broadcasts, in addi- . tion to admitting the Soviet pene- ' tration of Altdamm, said German j troops had evacuated GreifenhagI en, 14 miles south of Stettin. 0 INDO CHINA UNDER (Continued From Page One) — — . over the colony. Admiral Jean Coux, governor geenral of Indo-China, rejected a Japanese ultimatum and was 1 taken into "protective custody.”

» S \Go<h# i T ’ f Moo* » \ I W; netheriandsA J *>„ '& 11 COLOGNE '• * AMERICAN q Aachen u y i ,t) £ %.°7 Rheinbach BELGIUM Mayen JR , I Monreal a ? *Proem» | AMERICAN Kopp« 3M> ARMy J I Am \ iux tM »ou.o l AMERICAN THIRD ARMY TANKS stormed up to the west bank of the Rhine northwest of Coblenz, having plunged more than 50 miles Inside Germany in a whirlwind advance that sent the enemy reeling in chaotic defeat. With Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's Third Army driving eastward and the U. S. First Army swinging southward after the capture of Cologne, the Germans obviously had nothing with which to prevent the American sweep from enveloping Coblenz and Bonn. At the same time a sharp tank battle was reported just outside the captured town of Orsscnberg, five miles south of Wesel, where Ninth Army units suffered heavy casualties. Nazis were said to be fleeing across the Rhine at this point in anything that would float f Internationa!) IB ' ' : * i: . i ■ » hl ~S - sßk ' |®ih, a ST.. . ■ rwwl a J i ’IS jaL ' f i. ' ... J FOUND NAILED to a crudely-constructed 10-foot cross, n; t''" Fred Walcher, 43, also shown, is in serious condition m a hospital from the shock of having four-inch nails G, ‘7 . mse°nhis hands. A rough crown of thorns, fashioned from rO" twined on .rope, was on his forehead. His feet and mos. p a triclt were bound to the cross with one-inch rope. Police c ap‘- A O'Connell said evidence indicated Walcher was a "' l ** ins r lfice( j by placard reading in part, “This good man is chosen and sa ■, was the noblest, greatest and finest inspirations for WCI ' attached to Uie top of the cross, and reams of religious i > found in Walcher’s pockets. (Intern

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