Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 76, Decatur, Adams County, 30 March 1946 — Page 6

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Pitching Features Major League Camps Daytona Beach Flu March 30 tl'l’i Pitchers made tn* n»w- in the xpiltiK baseball training ump» today. with t.ic epotllght on the Brooklyn Dodgerreputed “won der boy” lefty Joe Hatten. who wu« to Mart i wl.iv g.rii*' ilgainet U ’ashington Hatten, a Pa, fi < oii-f le.igu* Mar before elite in.’ -eiV.ce, coin piled an alinoH unbelievable n <<>rd of strikeouts amt hitle-s In nings while hurling In ih*'crvli 1 and came to the Dodger tamp with an imprewlv* build u>> Pete He,*:. regular center field will at th I for tile |h*d'er today while rookie l.av.i-.0-t,, tiur*<e a ore arm bookie Carl ■ Carillo move into R,'is,-i's out field spot, Duro< r ai I. Red Sox Sarasota. Fla . March 30 HP) The 80-tun lied Son. who count | upon dupeiioi pitching to g|v< them the I9l*i \me, lean li-ilgU* flag over the fav red New York ' Yankees, wore jubilant today ovet the winning job tuned in y,«*ter ‘ day by Dave F*-rri". Ferris- the rookie »i-u<.itioti of 1945. went tlie route agaiii't the i St. Louis <aiditl.il*. National L* a gue favorite*. for a ft 2 victory The lied Sox al-o revealed that righthander Emmit O’Neill had been waived to the Cilli'Bg i Cults i and ouifleldi’t I'ete Fox given an j unconditional relea*>•. Rada Tampa, Fla .March 30 tl'l’i Manager lliil McKechnie. whoto weak bitting Cincinnati Beil* mu»i have good pit, ,iing if they an* to escape the National League <*dl.ir, admitted he wax worried today over the wildness of hi* hurlerx. Sig Red flingers gave Up it; walks yesterday, handing the Bos ton Braves a 1.1 to 8 victory, al though the Beds onthit the Br.ivio, 16 to 11. Giants Miami, Fla. .March 30 (ITi After a slay of infra squad activity. the .New York Giants hoped to gel back into Major I ..'ague com petition today ii.-ain-t the Phillies, with Van Mungo and Harty Feld man ready to pit < h Tigerg Lakeland. Fla. March .10 (Up) Detroit Tiger optimism rose to day despite an Is to || drubbing at i the hands < f the ( level ,nd Indian yesterday The world champions felt good about Hank Greenberg a two horn ~r, ||j M first cine** p ing training started Ja-s Fleming. Indian first baseman. also hit two homers, and Pat

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Mullin, Busier Mills. George Case and Herman Lolbn <ach got one Brave* Tampa, Fla. March 30 (IP) Tommy HolnuM, Boston Brave out . fielder wao barely iiihsid the No-1 Iona! League batting title last j year and then was demoted to I the ■im olid team this spring for hitting failure, wa hack on the . varsity today. He tiutted in three mn- as ih* braves heat elm intiaii yesterday. 13 to *> Manager Billy Southworth re waled the option of Infllder Frank lh> ws to Ind.ullapoll o Zollner Pistons Win First Tourney Tilt i 1.1 ago. Ma h fl PiP Tin* Fort Wayne Ind , Zolltteu , seeking find third consecutive world's pro 1 1* -siotial basketball cbampioiiship, twill no <l th*' Baltimore Bullets in j the tournament Si-inilinals Wed I n—day Th*- Z.idin* rs earned the right to Wednesdays play by defeating the Dow Chemicals o( Midland. .Mich . 1 ,65 t i 62. in the quarter finaki last j i Baltimore, regarded a the mo t 1 serious threat to the Zollner.'' hamplonship aspirations, bandy I < managed to squeeze lurough th" < quarter final-, edging cut the \n Hiei'Oll, Itid, Chief- 117 to 65, In other bracket of the semi 'finals, ttshkisdi, 1942 champions. I I victors over the New lurk Bene, ’ <•» II- in lo t night's plijy, willl i meet the Che ago Ge.n «. Th*- Gears, t-.ituiing Hu highly publicized Geo. ge Mikllll, former DePaul siui liig ace. eked out ,i 52 to .">1 victory over tin* Sheboygan lledskins in la t night opening game Spilling The Pins With Decatur Bowlers In League Activities Central Soya League Pilot won time from Anallt*; Traffic won two from M * II; Truckers won two from Dubs; Pent ilpushers won two from Belter Halve-. EEE won two fioni Itat* b; Master Mixers i won two from Erasers. Standing* W L M A- R 27 12 Pilot .25 II Better Halves 21 15 EEE 21 15 Pencilpushers .. 22 17 Traffic . 2i> 19 Truckers 19 20 Analits IS 21 | Dubs IS 21 Erasers . 17 22 Master Mixers 13 26 Itesean h .... « .33 High series: Men Snyder 590, Schultz 572. McClure 565, Vizard I 537. itowdon 532, I Bilker 527, Kuehn 513, Sanders 513. Hose 500, Felber 501. t Women —Hose 4*4. Young 483. High games: Men—Bayles 206, McClure 203. Dedolph 230. Vizard 216, Kuehn 213. Hulker 214, Snyder 213, Alton 209. Women Young 181, Wolf 170-177, MacLean 177, Nash 176, Hose 172. 0 Veteran Newspaperman Quits Bluffton Paper Blufft n, Ind.. March 3» (I'P) Franklin P. Buckner announced today that he would resign after 21 ytuiixt on tin* editor al staff of the Bluffton Daily News-Banner to become production manager tor a furniture and wood products manufacturing company. Buckner raid h<» would quit the first week in June. He joined the i Banner staff in 1922 and stayed i with the paper when it merged with the new,i In 1929. Buckner I was mayor < f Bluffton for eight | ' years to 194.7. O—. — Former Decatur Man Is Company Officer '■ i Charles Downs, former Decatur ' reMident and Decatur high school 'graduate, has been elec'ed vlco-pre-i sident of Ablmlt Laboratories, Inc., ■ in Chicago, according to newa di** patches in Chicago newspaper*. Downs has been with the com- , puny for more than 15 years. Ils hi ' a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. ! Frank Downs of Decatur. One of the st tries concerning the election of officer* stated that lIJHW) invested with the Abbott concern in 1933 today would be worth *16.600 plus dividends amounting to more than |3.‘ 00. More than half of Florida's 1,150 mile* of soacoaat is on lhe Gulf I of Mexico. If a visitor from Mars had time to study only one animal on earth, the earthworm would be hl* first choice, for scientists believe it to be the nearest to the theoretical t "average animal.*' I

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99-Year Prison Term To Admitted Slayer lowa Stock Buyer Is Given Sentence B*tlfor<l. Ii Manh 30 il l’ Henry Schmitt. 62. a livestoi k buy j ei whose ari.-t early this week ! solved a three year-old love tri angle slaying, facetl a year prl* on term today. Schmitt, father of four gi >wn children, pleaded guilty to second degree murder last night in the slaying of Thomas Worm. Conway, la. farmer. Worm’s di-appearance on the night of Nov 4, 1943. was one of the strangest in lowa* criminal history Schmitt, arrested on information r.iipplicd by Worm' widow, atl mined that he shot and killed Worm, buried IBs hotly twice in different places, then finally threw ' It into the Mississippi river near Keokuk, la., 2'H) miles front lhe | scene of the slaying The body wa never recovered. Mrs Worm, who told police that I Schmitt killed her husband, ad milted that she and St hmilt had been having a love affair. Schmitt pleaded guilty laat night after conferring throughout the day with his attorney. District Judge Georg' Johnston pang'd sentence to conclude a hearing that lasted only six minutes. Schmitt had Iteen charged with fir. t degree murder National Contest On Safety Posters Students of junior and senior high school art classes here have until April 15 to Mihmlt design* for traffic safely poster* in a national contest, the winners of which will be c„ed for safety education in schools throughout the United States. Forty ono prizes totalling 32,000 an- being offered by th • American Automobile Association. Washington, D. (’., for the best postei* submitted, according lo Chas. M Hayes, president of the Chicago Motor Club. |

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Power Hitting Greatest Need Os Jimmy Dykes' White Sox

iEditor's not* T!ii j i* the sixth in a sells* on the 1946 prospect* of the major l< agin* b.i eball : teams t BY LEO H. PETERSON (United Pres* Sport* Editor) New York. March 30 (I'P) ! With Hie < x<•••pri nt of pit< her Gor don M.iliz.lh'i r. in.imu’er Jimmy Dykes of Die Chicago White Sox lias th,- l>e*t of his pre war play er* Imek Add them to the Ih-si of his wartime perforate Iriww j el . and liie pale lul l' 'still lo >k like anything but first division material it* the 1946 American : l< agin* pennant iai <*. Dykes, who Is In a hospital re‘covering from a stomach o|M':ation ha- hopes th.it his pitching j staff may tie v tod enough to over come his otlo-r weaknesses. Bui th*' chances appear slim. His big need is power hillin': (>iitn,'l<l*'i- Taft Wright and Thur m.ui Tucker, >x G I s will help' in that department but how much I aid they will : el f tyn their team mates is probh'iimlli’al. If short- : stop L«ke Appling regains the form that twice won him the league butting championship and If Hal Trosky, coming back after . migraine head.ichi'. kept him out <f the game for two years, can wield as big a stick a- he used to with Cleveland, tin- Sox will generate enough power to make (rouble. Rifle-armed Bob Kennedy mid Don Kolla way at third and second. respectively, will round out "Objective of the Contest is to obtain unique design for school safety posters which art* provided monthly to 38.000 classrmtn* in Illinois and Indiana by the Chicago Motor Club. Mst year approxb niulely 1.000 entries were received, being judged In th** nation’s capital. RED CROSS (Continual Fiom Pass Ona) trlhutlon* and solicitations will bo accepted and credited to the drive as late as October, she raid.

the Infield with Appling and Trosky Wally Moses, a holdover from hi.-t year, probaldy will team up with Wright and Tucker in the : outfield. Ralph Hodgin Is th*- only other leading outfield candidate. For n-si-rve Infielders. Dykes probably will gu along with Che! Hajouk. fas' Miiliaeis. who was far from a major league shortstop last season, Mi-tl Jone mid either Leo Wells or Charles Biggs, up from Milwaukee, for Ills infield utility men. Catching should not worry him with Mike Tie'll, one of the best in tin- majors lust season, buck to handle th*' -pot Tom Jordan and George Dickey, brother of Bill Di key of th/* Yankees, will round out tlie receiving staff. Dyke* I* happy about one thing lie has his Sunday pitcher. Ted Lyons, back. It remains to be seen, however. Whether the 45 year-old Lynns, who pitching only on the Sabbath won 14 mid lost six ill 1942 before he joined the marine*, can come back. Johnny Rigney, back from the service: and three members of la i year's staff. Orval Grove. Ed Lnpat and Thornton Lee prolsibly will draw the regular starting berth* with hard luck Ed Smith and veteran Bill Dietrich used for spot assignments. Back of them are Joe Haynes. Earl Caldwell, the night ball sfiecialist' Frank Papish and ex-G I Ralph Hammer, most promising of the rookies. CLIPPER COMPLETS (('•■tiara* Perna Page Oael from Seattle to Shanghai byway of Adak and Tokyo for I’NRRA, over the route that previously had been flown only by army air force* 829 Superfortresses, Pan American said. The big four-motored Constellation carried a crew of 15 men on the survey flight. Met of them were technical experts who gathered data that wiil Im* helpful in maintaining regular schedule* over the new riute.

Tom Kelly To Speak Wednesday Fvening Conservationist To Speak At Monmouth Tom Kelly, nationally known rhalk talk artist and conserva* i tlonlst. will appear at Monmouth I high school auditorium Wednesday night at 8 o'clm k at a meetj Ing sponsored by fh*' Country I conservation club and the Preble, t'nlon and Root township farm I bureaus. It was announced today. Mr. Kelly is a representative of the roll service division of the 1 r s department of agriculture i The subject of his talk will be "Conservation" ami it will <leul primarily with soil. The meeting will he free lo the public and arrangements are being made to seat about 500 people. A special Invitation is being Issihml to teachers of seventh and eighth grades in the county, since conservation will be taught in u number of the schools next year. Mr Kelly is ait interesting speaker ami is well versed on his eubject. He also is regarded as one of the outstanding chalk artists in the nation, and he illustrates his talk with drawings. Amplifiers also will be placed oil the building to take care of the overflow attendance. The Country conservation chib ha* been endeavoring for a year to get Mr Kelly to Adams county and it Is highly probable that his appearance next week will lo* his only in the county this year. Tied For Honors In Handicraft Exhibit Jack laiwson. with his model monoplane. and Rohert Sprague, with a model helicopter, tied for first place In the handicraft exhibit at the Cub pack meetlag this week at the Lincoln school. Ea< h boy received a cash prize. The following new Cub* were laken into the pack and assigned to dens: Earl Sprague, Jackie Andrews. Robert Sprague. Gregory Harris, Roger Dull. Jatnee Engle. Rex Bovine. David Halterman, David t'hrick ami Donald Dale. n — Perfect New Form Os Penicillin Terre Haute, Ind.. March 30 (I'P) Commercial solvents corporation scientists today revealed they have perfected a new form of penicillin that eliminates refrigeration of the drug, formerly a serious whipping and storage problem. Production of penicillin in a new crystalline form will begin immediately, company officials said. The new development makes lhe drug of high potency and heat ((table. Hospitals and pharmacies can now store ft at room temperature, the announcement said. —————o—______ Urge Hoosiers To Eat More Chicken Indianapolis, March 30—(UP)— Indiana's famine emergency organization today urged Hoosiere to eat more chicken. “Have it twice a week on the family table and not just on Sunday,” the committee said, explaining that the decrease In chicken lot population will save poultry feed. The program was announced In line with a federal order yesterday curtailing the use of grain ae feed for livestock and poultry. LABOR SECRETARY (Ceatlaueg Free, Paa* O») most 900.000, Developments in other dispute*: 1. International Harvester Co. and the United Farm Equipment Workers, (ClOt. agreed to resume negotiations at Washington Sunday to end a 69-day strike at Hf plants which manufacture farm equipment and machinery. 2. Employes of the Virginia Electric power company said they would not work In wplte of being drafted into the Virginia militia by Gov. William Tuck. The international brotherhood of electrical worker* (AFL) ha* called a atrike for Monday which would black out most of Virginia and northeastern North Carolina. Tuck said they would work or face court-martial proceeding*. 3. On the Pacific Coeat. two large locals of the CIO I ingshoremen's union voted in favor of postponing a strike scheduled for April 1. Har rj Bridges, leader of the longshoremen, had proposed that tho strike he postponed until a government fact finding board has ruled on a wage dispute with shipping lines. 4» Secretary of Labor B<-hwe«en bach made a new proposal for settling a dispute that has tied up production at California canning plants, hut he did not disclose de tails. California congressmen, however. were expected to ask for the government to seise the plants UNO counciT (Cenuaueo From Faws Oral Is headed for a rebuff a* damaging a* Rusaia'a walkout. In such an event, the assump-

' iH I y wijj ’'J / — RUNNING BERSERK with a hatchet and knife, Arthur Crrtu m old longshoreman, killed two of hi* nine children, aer.cuijm hl* wife and five other children and then stabbed Brooklyn apartment He is shown receiving t nm* true while Assistant District Attorney Salvadors RouwtU i-xbg bedside. I

Hon is that tho council would doi ide to go ahead and let Iran lay bare her charges against Russia in detail—with Russia’s chair still vacant. But a change in Russian policy is not ruled out as a possibility. America's new ambassadfr to Russia. Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, has t arrived in Moscow and is "completely briefed" on the Iranian controversy. It he sees Stalin before Wednesday In-

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