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Jackets Open Practice For Net Schedule The T> cattir Yellow Jacket*, after completing their football schedule last week, have start**.! Intensive practice for the basketbail season, with the opening gam* only nine days away. The Jackets will open the 1*434G season Friday night. November 2. entertaining the Portland Panthem on the Decatur hardwool Decatur will play five games nt homo before Journeying to Berne December 7 for their first raid game of the year. The Jackets have nine hour gnmew and nine road tilts on this year's Dt game schedule. Warsaw fa thv only new team on the achedtile, the Jackets playing on th** Warsaw floor January 4. The Hoagland Wildcats will return to the Decatur schedule after a lapse of a f**w seasons, th* Jackets playing at Hoagland December 11. Feature of the Decatur horn* schedule thin season will Im* Hie annual four-team blind tourney, which will be play, d on th** Jackets home floor January 1. Compel ing teams are Decatur. Berne, Bluffton ami New Haven, the latter replacing Hartford City. Reason tickets will go on rah* at the high school office next Monday. W. Guy Brown, principal, announced today. Dan Perry, athletic director and head coach, will hive six lettermen returning from last years Sectional squad They an* Hill. Steiner. Be. hler, Ix-hman, L. Arnold and W. Arnold. Five of lad year's team were lost by graduation. Other candidates for the squad for the opening game are: Herb Johnson, a new student In D culur who was not eligible last year; Schnepf. back in school after a year's absence; Knapp. ,M< Kilian ey. Raughn, Ballard, Taylor and Nelson. A general call for candidatea for the team will not be lawn I until next Monday, as practice sessions this week are limited to the Lincoln school gym. as the Yel low Jackets gym has not been available this w-ek. Thu season schedule follows: Nov. 2 Portland at Decatur. Nov. 16 Garrett at Decatur. Nov. 20 Hartford township at Decatur. Nov. 30—Geneva at Decatur. Dec. 4—Bluffton at Decatur. Dec. 7 —Berne a’ Bern*-.

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Dec. 11 Hoagland at Hoagland. Dec. 14 Monroe at Decatur. Dec. 21 New Haven at lb*< atnr Jan. 1 Blind Tourney (Decatur, Bluffton, Berne, New Haven). at D catur. Jan ♦—Warsaw at Warsaw, Jan. * Huntington at. Huntington. t Jan. 11 Columbia City at Columbia City Jun. Ik Bluffton tit Bluffton. Jan. 25 Pleasant Mills at Pleasant Milla. Feb. 1 Auburn nt Decatur. Feb. R—-Kendallville at Kendallville. Feb 12 Hartford City at Hartford City. Feb. 15 Berne nt Decatur.

Columbus Winner Os South Central Title Indianapolis. Oct. 24— (t’P) — The Bulldogs of Columbus wore the South Central conference f<w»tball crown today on the strength of their 31-7 rout of Rushville's deß-mfing champion*. Coach Glen Adams' Bulldogs, by bearding the Lions last night at Kushvllle, lM*cane the second eleven to win a conference title this fall in the state Plymouth carried off the Central Indiana laurels two weeks ago. Kt 111 to Im* decided are the Southern, North Central. Wabash Valley and is>th wings of the northern Indiana conference. .Muncie Central's Bearcat* could Just about put the clincher on their sixth straight North Central < humpiotwhip tonight by trimming Kokomo in the Wildcats' lair. Muncie has another conference duel with New Castle jfi dayn later, l»ut comparative scores give the defending champions a fair edge. Top-billing on th.* mid-week card, however, goes to South Bend, where Washington and Central tangle in an intra-city headliner. Washington, mythical state champion the past two seasons, will be out Io Halve a recent loss to South Bend rllcy. Central, nicked by one point In Ito only loss of th** season. was the underdog. Also on tonight's card Is a BrazilTerre Haute Gertsmeyer game at Terre Haute. Indianapolis Crlspus Altucka threw a Jolt into North Central conference rank* last night by upsetting the Broncos of Lafayette Jefferson. IM. Jeff had won seven out of eight before meeting the all-negro school.

Indiana And Purdue Tickets Sold Out Bloomington, Ind , Oct. 24—(CP) — Indiana University ticket manager L. L. Fisher announced today that all tickets, Including those for temporary bleacher seats, have been sold for the annual IndianaPurdue football classic to be staged here Nor. 24. Trade In a Good Town — Decatur

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Cecil Isbell Named Coach Os The Week New York, Oct 24 (Vi » He wasn't even on th bench when his players draped crepe on the hopes of a teum that hud national foot ball championship aspiration*. Maybe that's no way for a coach to act, but It got results. As a matter of fact he was so far away he had to use a telephone to contact his assistants on the bench from his perch high up in the stadium behind the cheap seats. As on every other football Saturday he went through a two-hour stretch of mental gymnastics In which he was In on every tackle, * very block, each long |m«« and downfield dush. How else, he asks, could an old football player act when he Is back as head coach of his alma mater team? But the system pays off. Hight now he's the man of the hour In the big ten confer nee. the United Press coach of the week—Cecil Isbell of those banging Boilermakers from Purdue unbeaten, untied ami, until Inst Saturday, under-rated. ,

That was bfore they stormed into Columbus, rated two touchdowns inferior to Ohio State, unbeaten and untied for two reasons. Five minutes after the kickoff, the experts knew they were wrong. Th* y were watching a team with dazzle and dash, a team confident it was going to win because It had a mastery of nearly every Irltk In the grid books. And when the upset had been accomplished to the tune of 35 to 13. I«b II relaxed and told bow it happened. There wasn't any pointing for the game, he insisted. It was the old story of "We play 'em as they come along” and don't forget that the games g* t tougher as the season progresses." Realistically, he thinks next time his team could be the one to be upset. "We're not predicting any championship." he said, "it* member that we have to go the rest of the way with only three tackle*. We're hoping—that's all. But there is more to the story than that. The writers str*ss>d that this Purdue team was one of the most smartly coached that they had seen and* that the fine hands of a resourceful coach was in on every play. That was the fine hand that mad* Purdue a great team in the 1U35, '36. and '37 seasons when he became one of the top passer* ever to play in the big ten. latter, in five seasons with Green Bay, he w t new national league football records in yards gained, In total passes completed and in the number of touchdown passe* tosseed by one man. He returned to Purdue as buck fleld coach In 1943 and properly was given much of tbe credit for the perfect record t«am that went through a nine-game achedt.le allvictoriously under head coach Klin*->- Burnham. In 1944, he became head coach, fix* only national league pro player ever to hold down such a job In the big ten Young enough at 3<> to be one of the boys, he promptly won their confidence with a new kind of football. . o

Reduce Point Score For Navy Aviators Also Lower Score • For Novy Nurses Washington. Oct. 24—(UP)— Some 1.1.000 additional navy aviators will become eligible (or div charp- Nov. 1 because enough others have volunteered to remain on active duly. As of Nov. 1, the critical score for reserve flying officers above the rank of ensign will lie .mt from 44 to 39. For ensigns It go s from 34 to 20. In addition, there will be a further cut to 34 for those above ensign on Dec. 1, and on Jan. i it drops again to 30. The Navy said approximately 15,009 reserve aviators had expressed a desirv to remain on active duty. About 11.000 of them will transfer to the reguiar navy. There are now 40,000 reserve aviators and about 4.500 regular naval aviators. The Navy also announced that navy nure a will have their critical score cut from 35 to 32 points on Nov. 1. This reduction, plus the previously announced release of all married nurses, will make approximately 2,700 nurses eligible for demobilisation by Jan. 1. The Navy said 341,000 nxn and women bad been discharged from V-J Day through Oct. 20. The peak day of the last week releeawi about 12,000, with an average daily relearn* of 9,700. The tots! for the week was 97,000. A navy spokesman said the chief bottleneck to demobilizing those eligible is transportation, esftecially wptar iraasporUlkHt. Trad* in a flood Town — Decatur

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Negro Ball Player Signed By Dodgers New York. Oct. 24—(UPl-Bnse-hall men wer- cautious today in their comment on the signing of negro Jackie Robinson by the Brooklyn Dodgers' Montreal tarm team only the New York (Hants said they would scout negro teams in 1946 Robinson. 26-year-oid former allAmerica halfback at the University ot California at lx>s Angeles, was the first negro signed to a contract by a team in organized baseball negro leagues ai> not a part of organized, baseball and Branch Rickey. Jr., who announced the signing at Montreal yesterday. said that some ball players might quit the Brooklyn organization in protest. "If th- y come from certain Sections in the south, they may steer away from a team with colored players." he said. "But they'll be back In baseball after a year or two in a cotton mill.” Hector Racine, president of the .Monte al team, which won the International league's reguiar-sea-em championship, said he expected no opposition either from the league or from fans. “Negroes fought alongside whites and shat* d the foxhole dangers,*' he said. "And they should get a fair trial in baseball." The Dodgers signet Robinson after Brooklyn scout, had watched negro teams for several seaaont. Dodger seer tary Harold I’artoit said the former army* lieutenant, who batted .340 In 100 games a* shortstop for the Kansas City Monarchs after his service release last summer, was the best of 25 pros pets.

Horace Stoneham, president of the Giants, said his club would scout negro teams next season. "We will look over the young negro players.” he said, "But we have hundreds ot r I timing ervlcemen and only If they fail to make the grade will we have room for new players." Connie Mack, the patriarch manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, said h>> wasn't familiar with the move and didn't want to comment. President William Benswang'-r of the Pittsburgh pirates said that the whole thing was "The business of the Brooklyn and Montreal teanfs —whether it's a whltu man or a negro." Pirate manager Frank Frisch also declined comment. Ray Dumont, president of th* National baseball congress. guiding body of the seml-pros, said he belh-ved the large number ot negro players on service teams had paved the way for admission of a negro to organized baseball. Commissioner A. B. Chandler was not available for comment. Over 37,000 Season Workers On Farms La Fayette, Ind., Oct. 24—(UP)— J. B. Kohlmeyer, Indiana supervisor for the emergency farm labor program, said today that more than 37,690 season workers were placed on Hoosier farms from July 1 to Oct. 1. Kohlmeyer said the placement volume was the highest since the emergency program began. For the first six months of 1945, only 438 seasonal and 991 year-round workers were placed, he said. The figures for the next three months were 11,739 in July. 13.293 in August and 12,2*11 ia September.

Mother Os Muncie Baby Optimistic Medical Reports Give Little Hope Muncie, Ind.. Oct. 24 (UP)-Al-though terse melcal reports offered little Davis for hope, optimism ran high today as 17-months-old Gayle Harvey held her own in a battle against dread tubercular meniuglth. The tiny Infant remained In a coma throughout the night but seemed less restless than when she first liegun receiving inject lons of streptomycin, an unproved drug which doctors hope may save her life. As Gayle held on to the Blender thread of life, hospital attendants ventured the opinion that the drug at least bad helped to retard the ravished of the malady. Her temperature remained high, however, and was climbed aimoat daily to it 5 degrees. The drug, a mold derlvltlve. was administered as a last resort in the hope that It would act to destroy the tuberculous bacteria attacking mebranx of the child's brain. Gayles' history, according to her doctor. Dr. Gerald Young, was typical of tile disease. Bhe contracted a slight cold and soon afterwards began vomiting and appeared to suffer from head pains. A week later she developed convulsions and was removed to Ball hospital, where laboratory tests gave the diagnosb. Within a few days she went into a coma and ou Thursday last week was given Injections of the drug for the first time. A nationwide newspaper appeal unearthed 6,000.000 units of the little-known drug, and this was augmented today by two mil Hom more, the gift of an unknown Chi-i-agoan. Approximately 409,909 units have been given daily and there now Is a 17-day supply on hand. Gayle's mother, a former Wac corporal, whose army husband was killed in a parachute Jump over Germany, has maintained a continuous bedside vigil, firm in her belief that the drug will save her baby's life. Fort Wayne Planning To Overhaul Sewers Fort Wayne, Ind., Oct. 24—(UP) —The Fort Wayne city council last night ratified a contract between the board of public works and Charles W. Cole and Son. a South Bend engineering firm, to overhaul the city's sewer system. Coat has been estimated unofficially tJ reach approximately 91,000.690. The city will be eligible for federal funds under the contract. School Principal Killed In Accident Washington, tnd.. Oct. 24—(UP) —Memorial services for Principal W. Homer Meyers were «< hedaied at West End public school today, Meyers, 99, was injured fatally yesterday when hi» automobile collided with another driven by William L. Cliff, 49, Detroit. The victim had hssn principal at the West End grade school for 13 years. Cliff was detained by police on a charge of reckless homicide.

12,000 Japanese In North China To Quit Third Will Retain Protective Arms Tslngtao, North China. Oct. 21 (CP, _ About one-third of the 12.000 Japanese troops scheduled It* surrender formally here tomorrow, may be petfcilUed to retain their arms as protection against Chinese communist forces surrounding the city. It was indicated today. (A Chungking dispatch said the governor of Shantung province had reported fighting In progress between government and communist forces from Tslngtao west to Tsinan.> Maj. Gen. Lemuel Shepherd, Jr., of Charlottxvllle. Va. commander of the U. S. sixth marine division, will accept the surrender of Japanese Maj. Gen. Kijl Nagano. Shepherd will act on behalf of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek. A delegate sent by Lt. Gen. LI, commander of the central government's 11th advance army group headquarters in Tsinan, will attend the surrender but Shepherd will sign the documents. The national government asked that the Japanese be allowed to re'ain army pending arrival of government troops in this area and deportation of the Japanese to their homeland. It was not indicated when government troops were expected. Following a general pattern established elsewhere, probably about one-third of the surrendering Japanese will be permitted Io keep their arms. The Japanese have asked permission to keep three rifles in each group of 10 men as well as some machine guns and artillery. Shepherd, whose famed sixth division fought on Okinawa and Guam, emphasized that the marines did not intend to become Involved In any Chinese internal problem* and that hla men would not join the nationalist troop* in any combat operations. Communist eighth route army troops control moat of the Shunglung peninsula but there have l>een no contacts with the marines in Tsingtao, major port on the Shangtung coast. Nagano told correspondents recently that, under Chinese orders, elements of his force deployed

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