Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 72, Decatur, Adams County, 26 March 1945 — Page 6

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Urge Curbs On Advantages Os Tall Players New York, March 26 H'l’i The nation's baskeflbai! coaches agreed today to '’Do somejhing” to cuub the Ic-ight advantage cd' tall players, Ibut, failing to ait upon a definite plan, left the job for t'heir research committee. The* national association of coaches heard various plans, some ®f them drastic, in di.- ussing the problem at their annual nmeting yesterday A major::;, agreed that steps worn n< t-<sary. The «>m:i ruent for rules changes crystalized la wt'Week dur.ttg Cu- national tournaments now in progress at Madison (Square Garden, iwiien tail enters ran the show for their t ante. They saw George Mikan, six-foot, nine-inch etar for DePaul, make 53 points to set a n-'W collegiate rec-j ord. Arnold Risen of Ohio State . six-foot nine inches, make 26, Don Otten of Bowling Green, six foot 11-lnches. make 27 poitt'e in e ogle contests. Coach Nat Dolman of the < ity , college of New York said I ha' couldn't have happened during hie profi ■■pional days as a member ol original Celtic ■, ibe.cau.se of a rule that prohibited an off nsive playei from sanding with his back to the basket far more than kwo tp-coude. ■ "'The big leoys would not be able ' to muscle their way to points under this rule,” Holeman said. Other sugg-stions included elimination of rhe back iioard to keep J tall players from banking in pivot shots and extending the basket out one foot from the (backboard with a , metal .shank. These proposals w re i opposed ir>y several coacbefl who l contended .' would cut down the : Dbreak-through " style of play I which eemls an averag- size play- ’ er in for lay-up shots. Coach Bruce Dttike of Oklahoma, leading the legislation against “Big men dominating the game,” asked hu* colleagues "Wh-re would we be if we didn't change cut weapons to meet new problems'. At the finish the coaches turned ov-.r all pending legislation, includ-1 ing a proposal to extend the three Bocond lane from six to 12 feet, to the research committee of which (Drake is chairman. The committee will work on the proposed Changes and present the draft of new ruled at the next annual meting. — o LOCAL PI LOT ESCAPES (Continued From Page One) inadequate landing space, and urged that steps be taken to acquire a larger and more convenient landing field. Last week a group of men appeared before the city council and asked the city's cooperation in leasing a landing field for the use of Decatur persons who wish to take flying lessons and become pilots.

Tonight & Tuesday “MUSIC FOR MILLIONS” Margaret O'Brien, Jose Iturbi. June Allyson, Jimmy Durante ALSO—Shorts 9c-40c Inc. Tax —o Wed. & Thurs.—NOTE—No Special Event This Week! 2 Hits—“ The Fighting Lady” &. ••Eadie Was a Lady.” —o Coming Sun. —Deanna Durbin, "sen't Help Singing”—ln Color! i CORT] Tomight & Tuesday *GRISSLY’S MILLIONS” Paul Kelly, Virginia Grey & “MEET MISS BOBBY SOCKS” Bob Crosby, Lynn Merrick 9c-30c Inc. Tax —o Wed. & Thura.—“Strange Affair” Allyn Joslyn, Evelyn Keyes —o Coming Sun.—“Her' Lucky Night” A “Sing Me A Song of Texas,”

Byron Nelson Wins Greensboro Tourney I Greensboro, N. C, Mar. 26. (VP) Bvroii Nelson, still turning in I scores that look as if they might I have been made on "Tom Thumb" I golf courses, added firet money n | the Greensboro open today to his , list of victories in the current cams , paign. > j This time lie won with strokes to I | spare, tying the Starmount course 1 , record with a 66 in his final round ' yesterday to take a 72-hole total of 271, eight ahead of his nearest comf ; petitor. It was his sixth triumph this season and his second in less ‘ than a week. He received a sl.-1 t 333.33 war bond purse. Second place went to Sammy ' Byrd of Detroit with a 279. He I I > finished with a 69 yesterday to i ■ i nose out veteran Johnny Revolt,! ' ■ | of Evanston. 111., for the runner-up | purse of $933.33. Revolta had a ’ 71 on his final round to take a 28u total, winning $733.33. Nelson's victory yesterday pro-1 j vided him with an answer for the I ■ critics who said that he couldn't i , maintain his low-scoring pace ex- ■ cept on the easier southern cou.'s- ’ es, some of which permitted winter I , rules play of improving the lie. Tin i Starmount course is one of the j most ditticult the golfers have >•!>-; 'countered. With his final 66 Nel-1 ■ son tied the course record set in 1 ITD by Sammy Snead. If lie Hadn't i I had hard luck with his putting he I might have broken the record by t I three or four strokes. A crowd of 16,006, largest of th'- ! southern tournament season, and a | ■ record lor the course here followed i the players. Pistons Retain Pro Net Tourney Crown Chicago, Mar. 26.--ll'P)The , j Fort Wayne. Ind., Zollners' dotnin-' ance of the professional basketball ! scene never was more positive than it is today. The Zollners have won both the | national basketball league tile I and the world's professional to’.irm’.-' ■ nietit championship two years run- | ning. They captured the world's. I pro title again Saturday night I when they defeated the Dayton, ()., j Acmes, 78-52. at the stadium. The American Gears of Chicago, j playing in the tournament for the i first time, took consolation honors . with their 64-55 victory over the! New York Rens. The Zollners will meet the national basketball league's all-star! team in the league's annual all-stat game at Fort Wayne Tuesday. —■ — —o Decatur Cub Scouts Meet This Evening The 1) eatur Cull) scout pack will present an exhilbit of handicraft made at den meetings the past month at a meeting this evening a' 7 o'clock at the Lincoln school. Thexhilbit will carry out the theme. "Things that go" and “safety." Included in the exhibit will lie model boats, aircraft, trains, weather vanes, (boomerangs, gilders and ■kites. Each den will also demonstrate one of the Culbs rules of safety. A short discussion on the problems of foreign policy, in line with Gov. Gates' proclamation designating this week as "foreign policy week," will be presented during the meeting. Five new Cubs will be taken into the organization tonight, making a total membership of 41. The new mem'bers are Robert Brokaw. James Hackman, Jack Lawson, Ronald Loshe and Donald Wemhoff. Proceding the demonstration, the Cubs will play games in the school gym. under direction of Bolt Z'wic-k and Bill Freeby.

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Warsaw High Added To NEI Conference The Noi theaslerii Indiana high school athb tii confeivm-e will be expanded to nine team* with the addition of Warsaw next fall, it has been announced. following the withdrawal of Warsaw from the Cetiirul Indiana conference. New Haven was added to the list of conference schools a short time ago. thus increasing the number of the confeuem-e teams, which have included seven schools for a number of years. Warsaw, in making the change in i onferences, gave as reason for withdrawing from the CIC the difficulty of arranging trans- I porlation for games with other! southern teams of the conference. Warsaw already has several games scheduled with teams in 'he Northeastern Indiana confer nee and is expected to add other , ioop teams to next year's football ind basketball schedules. Nego- - iations are underway with the I Decatur Yellow Jackets for i games in-xt season. Members of the Northeastern Indiana conference, with the lat --st additions, are as follows: Decatur, Bluffton, Hartford City. New Haven, Auburn, Garrett. Kendallville. Columbia City and Warsaw. Fear Ted Schindler Is Killed In Italy In all probability Capt. Ted Schindler, pilot of a B-24 Lilb.-rator Ilium, .-on of Mr. and Mrs. John -Schindler of Berne, was killed in the cash on Feb. 28 in Italy. Tin' commanding officer of the group to which ('apt. Schindler was a::u hed. Inns written to the pareii' . stating that their .son’s plane was hard hit by flak and was seen to go into a <3]>in. crashing into a mountain side. The officer also eaid 'hat no parachutes -were seen to open from the plane. ('apt. Ted Schindler and his brother, -Capt. Hallman Schindler, were outstanding pilots connected with the air force in Italy and each bad received their promotions a few days (before the fatal flight of the one broth-, r. Capt. Ted Schindler had at least 30 missions to his credit. prior to the date of his being reported missing in action over Italy. Adams County Man Is Fined This Morning John Ortiz, 74, of near Berne, was fined $25 and costs, totaling $35, when arraigned before Mayor John B. iStults in city court this morning. Ortiz pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident. ‘He was arrested Friday night after his car crashed into an auto, owned ’by Thomas Emshwiller, parked in front of the Emshwiller residence on Mercer avenue. In line iwith procedure of the Indiana eta'e police, Ortis’ driver’s license proibalbly will ibe suspended by the state.

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Plan Three Meetings i For Potato Growers Meetings This Week To Discuss Problems Three annual tomato grower : schools will be held in Adams i county Tuesday and Wednesday. Roscoe Fraser, tomato specialist from Purdue, will be the principal speaker. The first school will be held at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday, in the Gene!va high school, in cooperation with the Limberlost Canning comi pany. Medals won in the tomato growing contest will be awarded | | in tins meeting. j The second school will be held ! at 1 p. m. Wednesday, above the ' Swiss Case in Borne. Menno P. Eicher, fieldman for the Louden Packing company, is making arrangements for this school and will serve a light lunch at the conclusion. Here again, medals will be awarded to the winners in the tomato growing contest. Otto Gase, fieldman for the Stokley Foods, Inc., formerly Crampton Cannery of Celina, 0.. announced a dinner meeting at 6:30 p. m. Wednesday, at the St. Joseph school in Decatur. This dinner meeting is by invitation only to contractors of tills year. In all the meetings Mr. Fraser will present the latest research information on tomato growing and in addition, a discussion will be held on the tomato labor situation with particular emphasis on the way prisoners of war may be secured lor tomato picking. O- —— ■ . Sgt. Harold Fuelling Awarded Purple Heart Sgt. Harold F. Fuelling, son of . Mrs. Henry W. Fuelling, Decatur , route 3, has been awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received ■ during the 38th (Cyclone) division's ■ drive across northern Bataan. ’Sgt. Fueling, an assistant squad - leader of Company F, 152nd (Indi- , ana) Infantry, has recovered from , his wounde and has returned to ac- • five duty with his company. i He has (been overseas for 14 i months, and before seeing action in the Luzon campaign, served ia >! Hawaii, New Guinea and Leyte. ! He entered the army in April, 1941.

Patrols Probe Nazi Positions In Italy 'Rome, March 26 — (FP) Fifth and eighth army partols probed enemy positions along the Italian front and engaged the Germans in sev ral clashes, headquarters said today. ■No changes in forward positions were reported. ■Planes of the Mediterranean Allied air force continued the steady campaign against German communications with new attacks through the Fo Valley, northeastern Italy and along the Brenner route into Austria. Nine-Year-Old Boy Is Drowned In Lake Columbia City, Ind., March 26 — (I'P)—Search was cotrinued today for the ibody of nine-year-old Paul B. Ramp, who was drowned yesterday while fishing 'with his father. The elder Ramp said that when the boy leaned out of the boat to look at a squall, t'he vessel capsized. throwing .both of them into Crooked lake. 0 REDS DRIVE TO (Continued From Page One) said. Leva lies on the HungarianSlovakian border some 30 miles up the Hron river from its confluence with the Danube. Forcing of the Hron would open the way for an attack on Komarom. 29 miles to the west, one of the main strongholds on the trunk railway from Budapest to Vienna. Far to the north, the Russian seige of Danzig and Gdynia, twin German-held ports on the Baltic, appeared to be entering its last days. On the Berlin front, Nazi broadcasts said Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's first White Russian army was maintaining pressure on German defense positions on the west bank of the Odor between Kuestrin and Frankfurt, 38 and 33 miles east of the capital. Fourteen Russian attacks along the Oder front were repulsed yesterday, Berlin said, and three “emergency" — probably pontoon . —bridges across the Oder were 1 smashed. ■

Three Whitley County Youths Under Arrest Fort Wayne, Ind., March 26 (V'PI — Three Whitley county youthfl' were in jail today with bonds eel al $1.60(1 each after they dmitted raping Mrs. Maude Bunting. 24. Fort Wayne Friday night. They are Benjamin King, 19: Glee Jagger, 21. and Kenneth Line. IS. o Wildlife Symbol The sheaf of grain that in some European countries is raised on a pole for the birds at Christmas symbolizes man's response to the needs of wildlife. ' o Deer Skin Leather Garments made of deer skins, of which there is a decided shortage, are especially desirable for use in' sub-zero weather, as such skins produce a soft and pliable leather. ■ —— •—-o — l atest News From Training Camps Os Major League Teams Dodgers Bear Mountain, N. Y.. Mar. 26. 11'1’)—Leo Durocher's first otticial fielding effort as player manager for the Brooklyn Dodgers was down in the books as an error today. Playing second base he booted a grounder that permitted two runs to score yesterday. Preflident Brandi Rickey was on hand to see the camp game in which the Dodgers defeated the Montreal Royals,, 10 to .8. Giants Bainbridge, Md„ Mar. 26. (I’P) —Pitcher Van Lingle Mungo’s prediction that he would win 26 games fcr the New York Giants this season wasn't borne out today in liia firs t competitive showing. His wildness and five Giant errors yesterday enable the Bainbridge naval nine to get off to a three run lead and the Sailors went on to win 8 to 4. Braves Georgetown, N. C.—The Boston Braves were well fixed for catchers today despite the continued holdout of Stewart Hofferth, who was slated to be one of the regulars. Youngster Bob Brady, who hit .363 for Hartford in the eastern league last season, joined the ranks giving the Braves four backstops. The Braves defeated Washington, 2 to 1. yesterday. Yankees Atlantic City, N. J. —The New York Yankees finished with an "even break” today, gaining outfielderß Russ Derry and Paul Wan-

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er as new arrivals in camp, mit losing outfielder John Lindell and infielder Oscar Grimes for selective ! service examinations. Lindell said he had been ordered to report for induction Wednesday at Los Angeles and asked for a transfer to 1 Camden, N. J. Grimes eaid he had been given permission by his Clove-, land board to. be examined in this area, probably this week. White Sox Terre Haute. Ind. Catcher Mike Tresh of the Chicago White Sox said today he expected to be called into military service shortly. Ue was scheduled for induction last October but went into a war plant when he wasn't called up. Cubs French Lick. Ind — Chicago Cub | manager Charley Grimm said today lie was pleased over the way ! his pitchers were rounding into, londitlon. Three of them. Henry' Wyse,' George Woodend and Bob Chipman were singled out for their good work yesterday in an intracamp game in which the B team upset the regulars, 2 to 1. i

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