Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 148, Decatur, Adams County, 23 June 1945 — Page 6

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Legion Beals Kraft, G.E. Girls Victors Pouring five runfl across th * plate in ilie fifth inning, the Am, i-; can Legion team (Herne All-Stars), defeated Kraft Cheese, 7 to 3, in t City softball league game at Herne Friday night. The winners made only one hit • in their big fifth frame, with Kraft players committing live errors. Bauermeister limited the Legion to three hits, while Kraft made six blows hut erred eight times. The Decatur (1. E. Girls register-' ed their fifth straight victory with out a loss in tlie Fort Wayne girls league Friday night, scoring a 7 to 3 triuhiph over Inca. Butcher ■ limited Inca to four hits ami fann-d | nine, while Decatur blasted out 12 hits. R il K Kraft ... 001 000 2 3 6 S Legion 010 150 x 7 3 1 : Bauermeister and M. Ladd; Neu-; etisch wander amt Liechty. MAJORLEAGUE | STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. G.B Brooklyn . 35 21 .025 St. Louis 31 24 .504 3L, I Pittsburgh 31 25 .554 4 Chicago . 28 23 .549 4’5 New York 31 27 .53 1 5 Boston 27 20 .509 6’J I Cincinnati 23 29 .442 10 Philadelphia 15 46 .210 22C AMERICAN LEAGUE \V. L. Pet. G.B. Detroit 32 22 .593 New York 30 23 .500 1' | Boston 29 25 .537 3 Chicago 30 27 .520 3*5 St. Louis 25 20 .490 s’i Washington 25 27 .Ist 0 Cleveland 22 30 .423 9 Philadelphia 20 33 .377 11 J YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League St. Louis 5, Chicago 2. New York 3-4. Philadelphia 0-5. Pittsburgh 3. Cincinnati 1. Brooklyn 8, Boston 7. American League New York 2, Philadelphia 0. Beflton 10, Washington 5. Cleveland 2-0. Chicago 1-3. St. Louis 8, Detroit 4. Elevator Shaft Fall Fatal To Custodian Indianapolis, June 23 —(UP) — A fail down an elevator shaft in the traction terminal building was believed today to have caused the death of Olier Ragsdale, 39, building custodian. He was found dead at the foot, of the shaft last night by a fellow worker. EISENHOWER DENIES (Continued I'Yom Page One) man said lie would go to Washington to confer with the secretary of war, take a short leave, then return to Europe early next month.

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SUN. MON. TUES. Continuous Sun. from 1:15 Technical Musical Hit “BRING ON THE GIRLS” Sonny Tufts, Veronica Lake. Eddie Bracken, Marjorie Reynolds ALSO—Shorts 9c-40c Inc. Tax O—O TONIGHT—“BeIIe of the Yukon" Randolph Scott, Dinah Shore. ALSO—Shorts 9c-40c Inc. Tax BSBMnMMMMMuaBi CORT SUN. MON. TUES. Matinee Sun. —9c-15c until 4 “IDENTITY UNKNOWN” Richard Arlen, Cheryl Walker & “THERE GOES KELLY” Jackie Moran, Wanda McKay Evenings 9c-30c Inc. Tax —o TONIGHT — Charles Starrett "Return of the Durango Kid.” ALSO—“Federal Operator 99” 9c-30c Inc. Tax

List Schedule For Next Week's Games The schedule for next week’s play in i hi' summer recreation leagues at Wort liman field, as announced today by Deane Dorwin, supervisor, is as follows: Monday Red Sox vs Senators, 19 a. m.; Indians vs White Sox, lo a. m. Tuesday—Reds vs Giants, 9 a. m.; Pirates vs Cubs, lit a. m.; Indians vs Red Sox, 7:30 p. m. Wednesday Pirates vs Giants, [ 9 a. m.: Reds vs Cubs, 10 a. m. Thursday Indians vs Senators, 9 a. m.; White Sox vs Red Sox. Postponed games will be play- | cd at the end of the third round, which will close July IS. Mr. Dor win also announced I that plans are underway for a softball field day for each league, consisting of baserunning, throwI ing for distance and accuracy, , batting. etc. Itetails will he i given at a later date. Kentucky Net Stars Down Hoosiers, 45-50 Indianapolis. June 23 —(UP) — I Kentucky's all-star prep school baflI ket.ball team today held a 45-40 vicI lory over Indiana's all-stars for the ! first time in four years of the flum- \ mer interstate hardwood rivalry. The Keutuckianfl led m At of the ■way in the Indianapolis Star sponj sored fracas at Butler fieldhouse i hiflt night. () Kokomo Youth Is Given Prison Term (Logansport. June 23 -i(UP) I Owen Eugene 'Miller, 21, Kokomo, ' began a 10-year oentence in the Indiana reformatory today. He pleaded guilty yesterday to charges of armed robbery in l.ogan port, Kokom.i and Peru Miller recently was returned from Ohio where he was captured following hifl escape from Caas county jail on June 9 bv overpowering an elderly Turnkey. o Craft Work Classes At Worthman Field Instruction in craft work 's being given each Monday. Tuesday and Thursday afternoon at Worthman fil'd under the slummer recreation program conducted by the Decatur puiilii schools. Steve Everhart is -'.iperviflor of the craft work, which includes woodcraft, weaving, metal work ami tin tapping. This craft work is coni|ju ted only on the three afternoons mentioned. 0 — Meal Tax Nets 2[/ 2 Million Boston (UP) - -Massachusetts’ meal tax will net the state $2,600.000 during the current fiscal year, according to an estimate by State Tax Commissioner Henry F. Long. This is a 5 per cent tax on all meals costing more than sl. o — Bag 6 Lions in Arizona Phoenix, Ariz. —(UP) Hunters I Employed by federal, state and prill vate agencies killed 16 mountain ! lions in Arizona in February. They also trapped or shot 439 coyotes, 79 bobcats and 35 foxes. Scores of smaller predators likewise were exterminated.

■ % < ' -WE 81/ ..¥&■■ :-.. SI X : 'diß niijin jKB CPL. GILBERT BEAMESDERFER ol Pennsylvania, who spent a month as a Nazi prisoner of war, spent 30 days endeavoring to convince his American captors that he was a GI. The corporal led his men against a German machinegun nest in France and was wounded. Then apparently he became mixed up with captured Germans, and only when he revealed his knowledge of Pennsylvania to officials did he succeed in having tljem check Washington for his fingerprint*.

To Ask Grand Jury To Probe Elevator Death Rockford. 111., June 23. (UP) Slate's attorney Max A. Weston said today he would ask the grand jury to investigate the elevator death of Mrs. Ruth Blanche Campbell. 35. Weston said h > would ask circuit judge Willfam R. Dasher to rec.ill the jury July 5 and conduct th" probe. At the same time. Wilson Fuller, Elkhart. Ind., half-brother of the dead women, sai l he would tile a SIO,OOO damage suit charging "wrongful death." against Cecil Robbel. 45, wealthy business man who entertained Mrs. Campbell in his apartment shortly before she died. _—.. . o 8?... ANOTHER GENERAL died on Okinawa when Brig. Gen. Claudius I M. Easley, above, 54, assistant j commander of the 96th Infantry division, was killed by a Jap bullet at his forward observation post on the Ryukyu island —just 24 hours after his commander, Lt. Gen. Simon B. Buckner, Jr., was felled by an enemy shell fragment. A native of Waco, Tex., Easley is survived by his wife of Washington, D. C., and son, Maj. C. M. Easley, Jr. (I nternational)

■ i k nt • IB tg ffil f>j ■ Jill * jjSßWOwfi BKhiSBKg GERHARD WILHELM KUNZE, abovet, former national leader of the Ger-man-American Bund, was one of 24 persons set free by the U. S. supreme court decision which invalidated the conviction of the men on charges of conspiring to advise draft evasion. A flve-to-four decision acquitted the Bundsmen, who were under sentences of five years each after trial in New York. Court said evidence was insufficient. (International)

jyi w •< *•'*■• I * S|B > Miß '« . <' ?gk' m \z : I ImH 9 MRS. LILLIE ROSENBLUM hugs a newspaper picture of her son s saviour, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, after she had been advised that the Allied commander had commuted the death sentence given her son, Pvt. Samuel Rosenblum, 23, for "disobeying his captain." Private Rosenblum, wearer of the Purple Heart, was sentenced in ETO. (Internationa/)

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Bedford Man Freed Os Murder Charge Bloomington, Ind., June 23.--(I'P) William Fuller. 29, Bedford, was a free man today because a jury decided, in effect, that the Iziwrence county coroner’s ruling of suicide in the death of Margaret Harbin was right. Charged with the shooting of Misfl Harbin. 26, in a Bedford hotel in February. 1 944, Fuller heard a jury return a verdict of not guilty last night after 20 minutes deliberation. 0 Trade in a Gora Town — Decatur x jM I IFv' ■ • <k- ■ *■ K. LBW “c -■ # W '■ / ■ '■ A . 1 ; - . :. h si > F A., SeWn-MKE.'i TTeSs THE USUALLY IMPECCABLE Grover Whalen, like most New Yorkers, presented this picture of discomfort as he mopped his brow during the heat wave that hit the east coast. He removed his gardenia, jacket, tie, and collar while completing arrangements for New York’s coming welcome to General Dwight Eisenhower. 4 International)

'x ■JW f Sr v y ■ -- -.lf i MRS. IDA EISENHOWER, mother ot the ETO Allied commander-in- ' chief, is shown above knitting her “umpteenth” Red Gross article as she waits at her home in I Abilfene, Kan., for the return of her famous son, General of the i Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, who | will be honored by his home town s Friday. (International),

DETROIT FOCAL (Continued From Page One) to get the men back to work.” he said. "But that doesn't nifan there won't be any. There may be something later in the day or early next week.” Approximately 5,500 workers at Hie McCormick works of the International Harvester Co., Chicago, returned to work last night. Nearly 3.000 rubber workers at

mW" W? : <>?w w '"' 1 x - • F ~' ' 4k3 & < ■ „u# ImmL PW»Olr» AT A CEREMONY before tbe tomb of France’s Unknown Soldier in Paris. Gen. Dwight D. Eisennower, right, is decorated by Gen. Charles De Gaulle with the Bronze Medal which made him a Fellow of the Liberation. The ceremony was part of the hero’s reception tendered Eisenhower in Paris. This is a mdiophoto. (International »

hKSrf SWh ...J- x Mr? it: ' J VQMb\ lit W ‘.W .. ... d •JEs ~ IL . raek • ■wmWwHbpb w w» tKgfr | p'X • K -1 STEVE HANNAGAN, the well-known publicity director, is shown with lovely Ann Sheridan, the motion picture actress, whom it is rumored he will soon wed. They are pictured as they relaxed in a New York night club* j. ~.. (International),

the Gillette Tire Manufacturing plant, Euu Claire, Wis.. atul 2,601) steel workers at the American Rolling Co.. Ashland, Ky.. were eXpeited to etld their strikes. Chicago truck drivers continued to trickle hack to their jobs, as the office id' defense transportation sought to end the city s second truck tie-up in six weeks. This strike, in its second week, involved lOJIOd drivers. Two of the nation’s strikes were called in protest against the meat shortage. Approximately t»,000 workers at the aircraft plant of the Briggs Manufacturing <’o., Detroit, quit over the absence of meat in their sandwiches.' Three hundred Bill (’ounty, Ky., coal mim-rs also protested the shortfl ge. o WORLD CHARTER (Continued From Page One) mittee of juri-Ms met until the flmall hours of thi-3 morning to complete Hie alnio:t superhuman job of putting the charter into five official language- English. French, SpanJh, Rusflian and Chinese. Each verion will J>e equally bind.ng on the signatories. The language job was one of the most difficult because each sentence, each phrase, each word and each punctuation mark muflt mean exactly the same thing in each language. Once the charter is signed, it will be too late to discover tiiat a certain phase means one thing to the English-speaking world and something different to the Spanish fl.peaking peoples. The detailfl of the charter have been revealed piecemeal during the weeks of debate. They follow the Dumbarton Oaks plan whic.i was framed by the Big Four last summer. but has ibeen broadened far beyond the hopes of many at the start of the conference. The key,stone of tli enew organization still remains the coalition of the Big Powers The United States. Great Britain, Soviet Russia. China and France. On them will fall the i-e pon ibility for keeping the peace. To them will- bo the special

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A HUGE WARSHIP is cradled in one of the floating dry docks now belli used by the Navy in the Pacific. The floating "ship hospital" is built ij ten sections, moved as close as possible to combat zones and then welia together. It has a capacity of 100,000 tons—more than enough to had the largest ship in our fleet, thus saving time in returning battle-dasid craft tn flzhtine condition. Official Navy photo. (InteniatioMii

Build Parking Space At Elks Home Here A private parking space isl being constructed at the eouthweJ corner of Hie Elks lot. 'The -hrubbery and a few trees are being removed by Jasper Bailer, who will then convert the space into a parking space. A cur'b will he placed at the end border of the flpace. Some of the plantfl, including peonie; and other flowerfl. will be moved beyond the parking area, Mr. Bailer said. 0 Bridle path and Boating Shrover Lake Park.

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