Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 61, Decatur, Adams County, 13 March 1945 — Page 6

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McMillen Wins Championship Os City League The McMillen quintet won the championship of the City industrial league Monday night at the Lincoln gym, scoring their second consecutive victory over Kraft Cheese, 32 to 23, in the playoff series. McMillen won the first playoff tilt last Thursday, 32 to 30. McMillen was out in front all the way, leading at the first quarter, 11 to 7, at .the half, 19 to 16, and at the third quarter, 21 to 19. The scoring was well divided for both teams. D. Schnepf tallied nin« points, K. Schnepf eight and Hirechy seven for McMillen. Reynolds counted six for Kraft, with j Cftibill and Kraft each scoring five i points. the Kraft team won the first half I of regular league play and McMillen won the second half. both of these teams made splendid showings throughout the season. McMillen won 13 of 16 league games and scored 16 victories in 2. exhibition tilts, for a season record of 29 victories and eight defeats. Kraft won 11 of 16 league games and 14 of 19 exhibition encounters for a season record of 25 Victories and 10 defeats. The Decatur industrial league was probably the only league in thia area which continued its winter recreation program this season, continued in spite of manpower difficulties and wartime restrictions. | The league climaxed its season last week with the three-game program Thursday night for the benefit of the Red Cross war fund. With actual expenses of the exhibition program defrayed by the athletic associations of the McMillen industries, Kraft Cheese company and rrvwvi O o Box Office opens at 6:15 to- i . night, show starts at 6:30; | i last show starts at 9:15. 0 O o «I— o — Last Time Tonight — •‘FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS” Gary Cooper - Ingrid Bergman ALSO—Shorts 9c-40c Inc. Tax O ' -——7 O WED. & THURS. O — o OUR BIG DAYS! First Show Wed. at 6:30 Continuous Thur, from 1:30 BE SURE TO ATTEND! I o — o I. . BEWARE THE 1 IbEATEN" GERMANS! I BStt WHY in the mast diring 1 B drint if our tine! k I I An * 1 A bore this ’ nameless child in hats and fear and shame I “ 1 GtO* 6^ l «i 0 61 s ISI1 S1 h*'-V S i V ■ Vredvcstl by HOBEBT GOLDEN Ol>*cr«4 by HERBERT J. BISEAMAN ——o—O — Frf. A Set—“ Bowery to Broadway.” —o Coming Sun.—Bing Crosby, Betty Hutton in “HERE COME THE ffjffp _ ■ flwbaeiiMwMiii. i i • ■

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G. E. Club, last week’s program netted $208.91 for the Red Cross fund, after deduction of federal amusement taxes. In addition to the above figure, the Red Cross also received $16.55 from the high school canteen, operated during the games by school students under the direction of Miss Mildred Worthman, home economics instructor of the Decatur junior-sen-ior high school. Hoping to continue its summer ’ recreation program, the league io ! now making plans for the softball ’ season, details of which will be ani nounced as soon as possible. McMillen FG FT TP I). Schnepf, f 3 3 9 . DeLong, f 0 1 4 K. Schnepf, c 4 0 S Way, g 12 4 Hirschy, g 3 17 Totalsll 10 32 Kraft FG FT TP Reynolds, f 2 2 6 Scherer, f - 10 2 Strickler, c 0 0 0 I Crabill, g 2 1 5 i Kraft, g ’2 1 5 i Franke, f 113 !N. Saalfrank, g 10 2 Totals 9 5 23 Referee, Everhart. —. — o ——. ■ ■ Zoilner Pistons Drop Second Playoff Tilt

Sheboygan, Wis., Mar. 13. —(UF) — Losing their second, straight game of the national cage league playoff series to Sheboygan 50-47 last night, the Fort Wayne Zollner pietone today faced the task of winning three contests in a row to retain their championship. Ed Dancker of Sheboygan was high man with 29 points, keeping his team in front almost consistently. The Pistons’ star, Bobby McDermott, fouled out as he did in the first game. The two quintets will resume play on the Fort Wayne floor Thursday night. The Redskins need only one more game to take the crown. ——.—.—.—o — Five Pennsylvania Miners Are Killed Waynesburg, Pa., Mar. 13. —(UP) —Five miners were killed yesterday in a fall of thousands of tons of boulders and earth three miles inside the Crucible mine of the Crucible Steel Co., Greene county. o Democrat Want Ads Get Results CORT o 0 — Last Time Tonight — “NIGHT CLUB GIRL" Vivian Austin, Billy Dunn & “MARK of the WHISTLER” With Richard Dix O O WED. & THURS. B With Death the Helmeman on * a doomed ship crossing terror■wept seat) ** 1 starring J I ROBERT LOWERY I PHYLLIS BROOKS ■MaudH*nit-lKk l> Rw ■ lUin BdrW|l Vlcttr Him •Me Cralf ■ WKm ttr—tl K SMMMn nmai — i Coming Biin. — “Big Show-Off &. “Mutnmy'i Curse.” T •

New Haven Is New Member Os NEI Conference (New Haven high school was admitted to .membership in the Northeastern Indiana high school athletic conference at the annual spring meeting of the conference, held Monday night at the Y. M. C. A. in Fort IWayne. New Haven, whoee Bulldogs have been consistently tough in basketball for many Beacons, will participate in both basketball and foodball, starting with the scholastic year next September. Football is a new sport for New i Haven, but the Bulldogs are now drawing up a 194'5 grid schedule, and expect to meet most of the other conference schools on the gridiron next fall. iNow Haven has been on the basketball schedules of several conference teams, including the Decatur Yellow Jackets, for several and the Bulldogs are expected to have little difficulty to round Out a complete loop net card. Hartford City, which has not fielded a footiball team for several years, may also return to the grid sport next fafl, although plans have not yet reached the definite stage. The Auburn Red Devils were awarded the conference basketiball and football awards for winning the league race in both sports. The unual NBIC track meet will

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Bosse Os Evansville ; Seeks Repeat Title ■ By JAMES E. WALTERS Indianapolis, Mar. 13. — (UP) — The colorful Bulldogs of Evaps- ' ville Bosse today were two victor- J ies away from recognition as-one • of Hoosier high school basketball’s all-time great combinations. Bosse opens the Anal round of j the 1945 state tournament next Sat- . urday at Indianapolis by playing Indianapolis Broad Ripple. If successful, it then meets the South Bend Riley-Huntington winner in the night game with the title hanging in balance. Most of the dopesters figure Bosse will win those two gamefl and become the fifth team in history to carry off successive championships in the 35-year old tourney. The ‘Experts” certainly have adequate justification for establishing the Pocket City’s pride and joy as top-heavy favorite®. Chronologically, the story begins four years ago when Herman Keller moved to Bosse as freshman basketball coach. He began raising “bull puppies” and last seasdfi, with Keller now head coach, the full-grown Bulldogs he tutored while frosh mentor blossomed into the state titleholders. Gene Schmidt, slender forward, was the only member of >the starting five who was graduated, and Bosse rolled to 16 victories in J 8 regular season starts this time. They reached the final round last Saturday by posting their most convincing victory —a 55-32 clubbing of Jasper, the team which was the experts’ choice to succeed Bosse. As it did last season, Bosse relies on a slow-breaking, control-ball etyle of offensive with the emphasis on smooth, calculated passing. Bryan (Broc) Jerrell, a diminutive redhead, is the key-man in the Bulldogs’ attack. He is a fancy-dan dribber and passer deluxe who always keeps the opposition guessing with his back court maneuvering. Besides his ball-handling, Jerrell has a deadly eye for the bucket and a talent for scoring when the Bosse cause needs points the most. Bosse, of course, isn’t a one-man outfit. Teamwork is the keynote of the offense. • Julius (Bud) Ritter, six toot three inch center, rated an all-state berth along with Jerrell a season -ago. He. is back Ibis time, better than ever with his precision passing, rebound work and high-scoring tactics. He notched 26 points in the semi-finals. . Ritter gets rebound assistance from polished' Norris Caudell and Norm McCool, the only newcomer on the startifig five. McCool was a substitute last March. Guard Jack Matthews primarily Is known as a defenseman and floor player, but his infrequent long shots have a habit of ewishing the net when the going gets tough. In the jasper game last Saturday, for example, the touted Wildcats rapidly were overhauling Bosse in the early moments of the third period. Then, two Matthews’ fielders moved the Bulldogs into A ■ safe. 10-point lead.

Bosse’s scoring average for seven tourney games is. 50 points — tops among the four finalists. The Bulldogs Sprinted into the finals by an average margin of 18 points in each game. Here’s the Bosse team roeter (usual starters first): Class Hgt. Wgt. Norm McCool, f... Sr. 5.11 170 Norris Caudell, f Sr. 6.3 165 Julius Ritter, c.....'..... Sr. 6.3 180 Bryan Jerrell, g. Sr. 5.7 140 Jack Matthews, c Sr. 5.11 170 Bill Butterfield, c...... Jr. 6.4 180 Gene Whitehead, g....5r. 6.0 175 Don Tilley, f _.... Jr. 5.10 140 Alfred Buck, f... Jr, 5.11 180 Jim De Groote, g Jr. 6.0 160 Q. Dr. Burris Jenkins Is Taken By Death El Centro, Calif. r Mar. 13 — (UP) — Dr. Burris Jenkins, Sr., 75-year-old liberal minister and newspaperman, died today. He was. the father of Burris Jenkins, Jr., New York cartoonthe El Centro Press, and Lt. Cmdr. Logan Jenkins of the navy, fiosi Stationed ai San Diego. ifit one time Dr. Jenkins Was president of the.,-University. ,pt Kentucky and was minister of the Comipunlty Christian ctfurch in,' Kansas ■ City, Mo. He wis editor of the Kansas City Post from 1919 to 1921 and later wrote a daily column for the Post. ■ . <*< . I .. : . . —•—o— ——t—•• . .In the pla/ie where the tree falleth, there it shall be. C? mH ES -W rfS-Sea L* ir iHi ; Kafll BfA i ACCORDING to stories told by Bcor«s of German prisoners cap- , tured by the U. S. Third Army . during the past few days, Gen. Walther von Model, above, has succeeded Field Marshal Earl von * Runstedt as supreme commander of German forces on the western front. Von Model is a dyed-ln-the-ivopi Nasi, who once saw service I in RuMa. His appointment to the i top position in the west is seen as ’ in line with the Hitler command l to NaHfy the entire Wermacht on I the Rhine. (International) ■■■».' ■■str- 1

First Round Played In Intramural Meet \ First round games were played Monday evening in the intramural league tourney at the Decatur junior-senior high school. In the lightweight division, the Maroons edged out the Hornets, 24 to 21, after trailing at the half, 12 to 10: and the Hawks eliminated the Avengers, 29 to 21, after leading at half-time, 18 t<\ 11. The Marions and Hawks will battle at 7 p. in. Monday, ‘ March 19. for the lightweight championship. In the heavyweight division, the Redskins eked out a 17 to 16 verdict over the Eagles, after the Eagles held an 8 to 7 margin at the half; and the Bears downed the Flashes, 28 to 14, although trailing at half-time, 8 to 6. The Redskins will meet the Bears at 8 p. m. next Monday for the heavyweight title. The box score; Maroons FG FT TP Slusher, f 4 3 11 Deitsch, f 113 Arnold, c •— 10 2 Sharp, g 2 0 4 Moser, g 2 0 4 TOTALS —- 10 4 24 Hornets Bleeke, f 0 11 Cowan, f— 10 2 Pickford, c — 2 0 4 Mattox, g —— 0 0 0 Lichtenstiger, g— 4 3 11 Essex, — .113 TOTALS 8 5 21 Hawks FG FT TP Gentis. f 113 Jackson, f 2 0 4 Everett, c 1 2 4 Rice, g 4 0 8 Kingsley, g 5 0 10 Durbin, f 0 0 0 TOTALS 13 3 29 Avengers Yost, f 2 0 4 Schnitz, f 10 2 Boknecht. c 113 Franklin, g 0 0 0 Hutker, g 2 15 Kruse, g 2 15 Bayles, g 10 5 TOTALS , 9 3 21 Eagles FG FT TP T. Fennig, f 2 2 6 K. Kolter, f— 10 2 Thieme, c 3 j 0 6 G. Knittie, g 0 0 0 Pl Pdllbck, g- 0 0 0 B. Haley, g 0 0 0 Barnett, g 10 2 Jennings, g 0 0 0 TOTALS 7 2 16 Redskins P. Hammond, f -Oil R. Cottrell, f 2 0 4 R. Christen, c 3 0 6 J. Lichtenstiger, g.- 0 11 B. Whittredge, g .. 2 1 5 R. Knapp, g ------ 0 0 0 TOTALS -7 3 17 Flashes FG FT TP Egley, f 0 0 0 Wolfe, f — 2 0 4 Sheets, c 10 2 Shook, g r— 1 0 2 Gehrig, g 3 0 6 Ward - 0 0 0 TOTALS- 7 0 14 Bears Stucky, f — 0 0 0 Ross, f 4 0 8 Saylors, c — 3 0 6 Taylor, g 2 0 4 Arthur, g 2 15 Werling 10 2 Freeby ‘— 113 TOTALS 13 2 28 0 Hoosier Postmaster Is Indicted By Jury Indianapolis, March 13.—(UP)i — Postmaster Benjamin Harrison of Monroe City today was under indictment (by a federal grand jury on charges of embezzlement of $650 of ipost office funds. Peter H. Walker. 26, Deaver, Colo., and Shelby M. Moore, Lawrenceville, 111., wtere ndicted on Dyer act counts, while Ralph Polston, 21, Vincennes taxicalb driver, was charged with a IMann act violation. o ' Mussolini Henchmen Given Prison Terms Rome, March 13.—(UP) — Two high ranking members of Benito Mussolini’s Fascist government began long prison terms tklay fol lowing their conviction of being Involved n Fascist crimes. Fulv'.o Suvicti, former undersecretary of foreign affairs and onetime ambassador to Washington, was sentenced to 24 years at the conclusion of the trial of 15 Fascist leaders yesterday. Francesco Jacomonl, former lieutenant general of Alabama, was sentenced to 15 years.

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KUESTRIN FALLS (Continued From Page One) first White Russian army in fierce street fighting. The Germans resisted to the death from fortiifed stone houses, pillboxes,' barricaded streets and other steel and concrete defenses. A city of 21,000, Kuestrin lies astride a trunk railway and a superhighway from Warsaw to Berlin. Nazi broadcasts said the Russians were rushing "regiment after regiment” and huge stocks of supplies into line at Kuestrin and elsewhere along the Oder for the assault on Berlin. o Trade in a Good Town — Decatur o ZAMBOANGA IS (Continued From Page One) gave no estimate of Japanese losses.) While one column of Doe's forces tumbled Zamboanga with its administration buildings, another unit drove inland and seized San Roque airdrome, one and a half miles northwest of the city. San Roque airfield was the second major airdrome taken on Mindanao and provided the Americans with a number of airstrips. Reconnaissance planes already were operating from Wolfe airfield, three-quarters of , a mile inland from the initial landing spot at San Mateo. P-T boats maintained a steady patrol of Basilan strait, supposing the ground troops ashore with automatic fire. They also teamed up with 13th air force Mitchell medium bombers to rake enemy installations on Bas|lnn island, across the narrow strait from Mindanao. A number of small Japanese craft were sunk off the southern end of Basilan. Fighters and liombers also sup-

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