Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 135, Decatur, Adams County, 8 June 1946 — Page 6

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Passeau Leads Cubs' Victory Over Brooklyn New York. June •—(UP)—Not even the thrill of a game winning homer by Cub pitcher Claud* Passeau. the return to form of Morton Cooper of the Braves or the winning debut of Hobo Newsom of the Senator* could overshadow an ordinary triumph In an unimportant game by the Pittaburgh Pirate* today The Pirate*, by beating the (Hants, |0 to 5. managed to pull up within one percentage point of the floundering sixth place New Yorker* certainly no extraordinary achievement. Hut as they played their game at Fort*** Field last night, a drama was enacted that never before had taken its place In baseball. The Pirates, first major league team In history to demand collective bargaining rights from cluh officials, waited until the last minute before giving manager Frankie Frisch a vote of confidence by not going out on a strike that had been generally expected. Once on the field, they gave him another vote of confidence by battering six Giant pitchers for 15 hits, equalling their season's high and showing sustained tower throughout the game for the first time this year. The Pirates teed off bn Giant ace pitcher Hill Volselle for two runs In the first inning and sent him to an early shower In the third, unmindful of the fact that he was fresh from a five-hit shutout over the vaunted St. Louis Cardinals. Jimmy Rrown and Elble Fletcher each made three hits and Hoh Elliott, Frankie Gustine. and pitcher Eilson Bahr got two apiece. Hahr, who won hi* third game, had to give up in the fifth, a victim of his own hitting prowess. He Injured a leg running out a three-bagger, but Ken Gables preserved his victory. Passeau. the aging Cub mound artist who attained baseball immortality by pitching a one-hit victory against the Tigers In the world series last fall, won another memorable game against the Dodgers at Chicago, 2 to 0 on four hits, when he crashed a homer in the last of the ninth. There was criticism of manager Charley Grimm's strategy when Passeau was permitted to bat In the last of the ninth after Clyde McCullough got on by being hit by a pitched ball. Passeau stifled the critics by blasting the ball Into the bleachers to best rookie Joe Hatten in a stirring due!. Cooper, plagued for two years hy arm trouble, was his old unbeatable self at Cincinnati, holding the Red* hit less for six innings in a 3 to 1 victory for the Boston Braves. The Reds made two of their three hits in that Inning for their only run. Tomsty Holmes with two doubles and two singles in four times at bat, led the Braves. Lefty Ken Raffensberger turned in a five-hit, 5 to 2 victory for the suddenly spunky Phils at St. Louis. He was backed up by a grand-slam homer by Frank McCormick in the third, it was Mc-

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Cormick's sixth of the season. Newsom, returning to the Senators for the fourth lime in his career, lieat the White Sox. .1 to 2 at Washington and had u nohitter until Guy Curtrlght singled )r the seventh, when Chicago got both of its runs via another hit by Don Holloway and two walks. Newsom gave up only those two hits. The Yankees beat Cleveland, fi to 5 at New York on a fluke bunt by Charley Keller in the 11th with the base* loaded. Relief pitcher Joe Krakaukas hit his bat with a throw and the ball dropped fair, pinch runner Steve Souchock sliding home with the winning run. Keller and Aaron RobInsoh hit Yankee homer* and Pat Seerey got one for Cleveland. It saw Keller's 11th. putting him In a tie for the major league lead. Harney McCosky's double, a wild throw and a long fly produced the winning run In the 10th as the Athletics beat the Browns, 5 to 4 at Philadelphia Johnny Berardlno hit a homer for the Browns. Detroit and Boston were not scheduled in the American. Yesterday’s star — Claude Passeau of the Cubs, who rewarded hi* own four-hit pitching with a ninth inning homer which beat the Dodgers, 2 to 0.

Legion And Moose Win league Tilts Legion Post 43 and Moose were victors in Decatur softball league game* Friday night at Worthman field, defeating K. of C. and McMillen. respectively. la-gion bunched 11 hits effectively to defeat K. of C„ 10 to 4, In the opening tilt. Included in the blows were home runs by Templin, Crist and Stapleton. The losers obtained 12 hits but failed to bunch their blows effectively. in the nightcap. Moose edged out a fi to 6 victory over McMillen, staving off a late rally by the losers. Moose held a 8 to 1 lead going into the sixth frame but Mini Ulen rallied, four tuns on only two hits before Sharp relieved Agler to retire the side. In a Main Auto suburban league game, played at Uniondale last night, the Decatur G. E. Club defeated Uniondale. 9 to 5. Next week's schedule: Monday — la-gion vs Moose; Bluffton Elks vs G. ~E. Tuesday—G. E. vs Schafer; McMillen exhibition. Thursday—K. of (' vs Yager; Bluffton vs l-egion. Friday —G. E. vs Moose; K. of C. exhibition. Last night'* scores by innings: R H E i-egion .... 310 031 2-10 II 0 K of C. ... 000 013 0 - 4 12 2 Johnson and Hakes, Haugk; Murphy, R lamgerich und T. Bollinger. R II E McMillen 000 104 0-5 71 Moose .. 131 010 x • 7 5 Selking and Wolf; Agler, Sharp and McClure. R II E G. E, Cluh ... 020 024 0-9 6 2 Uniondale .. 302 000 0-5 3 3 Bauermelster and M. Ladd; Moffett and McAfee.

BASEBALL RESULTS

NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pet. G.B. Brooklyn 30 15 .667 St. Uah .... 25 in .558 4«4 Chicago 21 19 548 5'4 Cincinnati 19 20 .487 8 Booton 20 21 .465 9 New York 20 25 .444 10 Pittsburgh 18 23 .439 10 Philadelphia .. 15 26 .366 13 AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pct. G.B. Boston 36 9 .800 New York 32 17 .653 6 Washington .. 25 19 ,568 101$ Detroit 25 21 543 11H Cleveland 19 28 .404 18 St. Louis IX 27 .400 18 Chicago 15 27 ,357 19 H Philadelphia .... 12 34 .261 24*4, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W L Pct. G.B. St. Paul 30 22 .577 .... Indianapolis .... 25 19 .568 1 I-ouisvllle 27 22 .551 1H Kansas City .... 27 23 540 2 Toledo 23 27 .460 6 Milwaukee 20 25 .444 Minneapolis .... 21 27 .428 7 Columbus 19 26 .422 7H YESTERDAY’S RESULTS National League Chicago 2. Brooklyn 0. Pittsburgh 10, New York 5. Boston 1. Cincinnati 1. Philadelphia 5, St. Louis 2. American League New York 6, Cleveland 5 (11 innings) Philadelphia 5, St Louis 4 (10 lunlnas.l. Washington I, Chicago 1.

Pirates Vote Not To Strike Against Club I % Pittsburgh. June 3. —• (UP) - Pittsburgh Pirate manager Frankie Frlech emerged a victor today over an admitted baseball outsider, Rohart Murphy, the Harvard educated union organiser, whoa" efforts to promote the first major league labor walkout In history ended In dlnma! failure. The players, who stood by Murphy until the hour of showdown, finally voted in a stormy clubhouse (tension to *tick by Frkich and gave the fiery manager an added vole of confidence when they went on the field and licked the Giant*. 10 to 5, behind their most robust hitting display of the entire season. Murphy had held th-' upper-hand until that la«t minute meeting. The American baaehall guild, which hr had founded only this year in Boston. held u majority,membership of 34 out of the 37 player* on the Pirate roster. Behind his leadership, they had voted earlier to walk out on their game with the visiting New Yorkers unless the Pittsburgh chib president, William •’♦nswanger, yielded to their demands for recognition of the guild a* a collective bargaining agent. The player* convened for nearly two hours before game time und in the midst of their session called upon the Pirate field director. Hob Itlce, who addressed them for 15 minutes. Rice, acting as a management representative, assured them that their right* would be protected und that at least come of the concession* they sought through the guild would be granted. While the gathering crowd awaited in the twilight, unmindful of the drama that was unfolding in the club-house, the players tdok a vote and by a count of 19 to 17 decided to go out and "win one for Frinkie." The player* took the field grimly, ignoring even Murphv who sto >d nearby smoking a cigar and looking dejected. They lost no time in establishing the fact that they meant business, rapping ace Giant pitcher Bill Volselle for two run* in the first inning and getting a total of 15 hits off a succeeding parade of nix Giant hurlem in their victory. Voinelle, who had shut out the vaunted St. Louis Cardinals with five hit« on hi* lust outing, was treated like a batting practice pitcher and had to be removed after two and a third innings. Murphy who had said earlier in the day that the walkout .'ainat the Giant* was the move upon which "everything depend*." - Insisted that the guild would continue Its fight. "If the Pittaburgh players do not go through with this thing tonight. we are licked.” he said Irefore the meeting. After the vote was announced he released a statement in which he said that "the mere fact that the guild member* of the Pirate* did not < house to use an economic weapon at their disposal at thi* time does not Indicate that we ahull not continue our fight In Pittsburgh."

o Coach Os Anderson Champions Resigns Anderson. Jnd., June 8— (UP)— Andsrwon high achool’s basketball team, 1946 Indiana state champion*, wa* without a coach today following the resignation of Charles Gumming*. Cummings, who guided the Indian* to victory in the Hoosier prep school elimination*, said he quit to take a petition with th« American playground device company. — 0 / Rides Horse Into Tavern, Buys Drink An over enthusiastic horseman, who became thirsty las* night, surprised patron* of a local tavern —especially those with an extra drink or two—by riding the equine in the back door and out the front. A bartender, presumably too atunned to refuse, served the sportsman a drink—while he remained aatride the hone; and then wondered if the situation met Indiana law which requires that any person be seated before drinking. 0 At the start of the war In 1939 the longest range of a plane was 1.8(H) miles, but soon after the occupation of Japan a 8-29 Superfortress flew 8,198 miles non-stop from Guam to Wawh.ngton. Oniy game* scheduled. American Association St. Paul 5, Columbus 4. Minneapolis 7, Louisville 2. Toledo 8, Milwaukee 2. Indianapolis 8, Kansas City 6 (called 9th to allow Indianapolis to catch train)

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Boys Meet Monday For Summer League All buy* of Decatur wishing to sign to play in the summer vacation recreation softball leagues are asked to report at Worthman field Monday morning. Deane Dorwin. supervisor, announced today Ail boys aged 10 to 14. inclusive, are asked to i eport at 10 a. m. Monday at the th-ld to sign for league play. All boys 14 and over, who are Interested in playing regular baseball are requested to report at the field at 11 a. in. Monday. If stiff icient interest is shown, a regular hardball league will Im- formed. Otherwise, these older hoys likely will be placed on teams In the softball league No practice sessions will be held Monday. Formation of leagues and drawing of schedules will be made later. The summer recreation league wlir again be sponsored this year hy Adams Post 43. American l-eg-ion. oMove Armv Finance School To St. Louis fndinnonoll*. June « tl'P) - Arm* spokesmen «ald t"dnv that the fln-tnre school n* Port P-n---la—tn Hserlww* would he moved to R*. I.n-it, late in Jn|v Ct nt. Rntiert Cummins, nt»bt*e ••“latinns officer at the no«t, said the chan*" of T'-entlon was s naw "* n docentr-itivatinn nrogt-am. Thn srhonl. a* Far* Harrison since 1941, will be fixated In a former ■m-ttl arms plant In St. Louis. ho raid. —■ The Calif orals-A risona citrus Industry uses 2«O,oO*t.*M>o board feet of lumber per year for iK'xee.

ML 1 Sep * '■ a j \uST IN CASK YOUR GROCiR is sUil showing empty shelves and your breadbox is void of that art** ; aide covering for your sandwich—take a look above and dream. This is what you're standing in lino Ist along with housewives across the nation as a critical wheat shortage closes down 98 per cent of 1 the country's flour mills. The Agriculture Department la arranging to allocate special supplies ' to thoae areas suSsrLn; grsatast uraughia in baiury goods. - — (laternatiaaall j

yV r A0 ,Y n r i I * WUVM Industrial reconversion in America may be slow at the present time, but the reconversion to accidental deaths on the highways is Increasing by leaps and bounds. The first three months of. this year. 8,129 persons were killed in traffic accidents. Theie were 2.670 persons killed in March, which is an Im reuse of 39 percent over the same month last year and only 3 percent below March. 1941. Reconversion to death inarches on. With the increase in traffic during the summer months. tjiese figures will Increase still more unless you and I do something about It. Yon know what to do—drive safely in a safe car. Seek Continuance Os Atterbury Operations Indianapolis, .June 8 (UP)— Governor Gates today had pledged his support to an Intercity action committee composed of representstlveo of nine central Indiana cities which qeek to continue fulltime operations at (’amp Atterbury. The committee coniacted Gates at the statehotHe and urged that he endorse their program which called for 12-month operation - of the anny camp as a national guard training center. 0 All grain shipped abroad from the United Slates must be used for direct human consumption or for seed. No export licenses authorizing shipment are made without this qualification. A follow-up <he<-k Is made hy representatives of UNttilA operating in faminestricken areas,

79-Year-Old Woman, Youth Slated To Wed Kentucky Log Cabin Scene Os Marriage ImuMa. Ky ,’jttne 9 (UP) The two room log cabin on a fork of Coolmey Creek wax splc and span for the wedding today of Mrs. Matlie Lyon* Urge. 79. and her 19-year-old farm hand. Neighbors watched, tongue In check. The wedding was post turned yesteiduy because of a technicality no marriage license —hut Mr*, latrge. small, erect und sharp- eyed, old everything would be ready today. She gave her groom-to-be. Delbert Lee (Shorty) Sproime n check tor |6 yesterday and sent him off to the pike In hl* clean overalls to hitch-hike a ride to town und get the license. Mrs. lacrge's two-roam log cabin on her 17-acre farm ia hi miles lanilsu. part of the way by road, then on foot acron* op'.it rail fences, a couple of hills, and a detour around her gafden patch. It has a soft, comfortable bed. with a feather tick. There- I* a buttery radio. Some- of the furniture is hand made from rough native lumber. The- people- of Louisa, population 1,961, hometown of secretary of treasurer designate Fred M. Vinson, were not much concerned a bout the December-May wedding in the hill*. Mrs. Large, who has been a widow 17 years—,ne year lees than her groom-to-be's entire life -has seven children and 49 grandchildren. Iler youhfest grandchild is I alscut the age of Sprouee. Neighbor* .aid she had threatI ened to marry becauav she was I peeve d after a grandchild who had Iceen living with her moved away. Sprouse, whose parents live on a I neighboring hillside farm, has been i helping Mrs. Large around her I place. "I can't run a farm aline," ehe said. Reporter* and photograper* climbed the hill for a call yesterday. Mrs. Jacrge changed from her mother-hubbard apron to a print house dress to leave her picture taken with the apple-cheeked Sprouse. The* groom-to-be didn't want to talk about the wedding. He finally said he was "sort of anxiotM.” Mrs. lairge wa«i indignant over the suggestion that she and Sprouse took the blood tests und filed their Intentions to take out a marriage license just to get some reaction from her family. Sprouse, with the check in hand, and a note In hl* shirt pocket from his parents to Lawrence county clerk W. H. Moore saying they had no objection to hie marriage, hitched a ride lack io town with the reporters. He Was in no hurry to get to the court house. "Reckon I come this tar. might us well see what there I* to see,” he aafd as he walked' away from the automobile. Average Length Os Life Over 65 Years Ixmgevlty among the American people In 1944 rose to the highest point on record, und for the first lime In the country's hiatory the average length of life exceeded «5 years. The actual figure, 65’4 jears, is almost 16 years greater than at the beginning of the century. according to computations by the statistician* of the Metropol!- ' tan Life Insurance company.

J 'lp * A-' * * ** STAffVID, tNSIASt-SYRICKtN RIfUGEES filter famine areas, hoping to fin.! help m citv 2 w \ Chine., mother bends helplessly over covered body is shrunken from malnutntion halted under a 30-day truce, made tran.w.H,.,?*.^wl ■upplies impossible in the stnekva Ummuniit bea, provinca L

Indiana Man Found Dead Along Railway Severed Body Found Near Crothersville Seymour, Ind.. Juno g— (IT)— Deputy Jackson county coronerV. L. Burkholder said today he "hadn't exactly closed" an investigation of the death of Ephriam Craven. 41-year-old Crothersville chiropractor whose severed body was found lying along the Penn sylvanla railroad tracks yeslerday. Burkholder said/('raven "apparently died an accidental death.” He sal.l he would check further today to determine why the victim went along to a p'int about a half mile south of Croth (•rsville Thursday night. Ratfroadmen alioard a southbound train noticed the liody early Friday morning Section hands returned to the spot and notified authorities. Burkholder said the body wa* cut in two by a train. He sail ( raven apparently died sometime

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