Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 3, Decatur, Adams County, 4 January 1947 — Page 6

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Decatur Again Host To Sectional Tourney

Adams County Teams Compete Here For Title De* atur will >»»■ host to th** A'! tuns county high school -tball teams for the eighth eons* < utivc ><-ar February 27. 2* ant! March 1. it was announced la«t n'-'ht ,by the ,!’>4jaii;i high «< hool athlet < assoc iation, in revealing plan* for the annual sectional regie:. al semi-final and final tourney*. The jtt Adams c-.unty team*, pet tftur Yellow jlp hets. ■ atur Commodores, Berne, Monmouth.* Pleasant Mill- Kirkland Monroe Jefferson Geneva and Hartford, will compete for the sectional honors at tlS*- ir jut.iorwnior high school gymnasium on the fjnal Thursday ami Friday in February and the first Saturday in March. The team- will vie forth- sec tional crown won lor the past two years by the Berne Bear*. The local -ectional winner will again compete In the regional tour toy Huntington March '*. with win’ ner* from Huntington. Bluffton and Hartford City The Huntington regional winner will play in the Muncie semifinal tournament Man h 15. with regional winner* from Fort Wayne. Muncie ai d Marion. The state final tourney will be held at the Butler fieldhouse at Indianapolis March 22. Admission prices will be increased in all tournaments this year the IHSAA also announced. For the Decatur sectional, which will be played la five essionu iThursday night, Friday afternoon and night and Saturday afternoon and night I. season ticket prices' will be |2. as compared to II 50 last year. Single session tickets, if any are available, will be priced a! W cents Season ticket* at all regional tourneys will be *1 M, and single session 11. Semi-final season ticket* will be 22, and for the final tourney will ba i". In announcing the sectional, regional, semi-final and final session sites and dates, the IHSAA also made public the following changes 1 -Shifted 14 sectional tourney * Sites, five regional sites. 2 Authorised, as an experiment this year only, that the first 12 games in each ectlonal at Hammond and Gary be played simultaneously in two gymnasiums "to relieve the great demand tor tick ets at those two centers, which have 32 teams altogether. The first 12 Hammond games will be divided between Hammond and Hast Chicago; the first 12 Gary games be-

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Week's Schedule Os Adams County Basketball Teams Friday ' Warsaw at V< llow Jacket*. Gene..i at Monmouth.' j Hartford ut Kirkland Munroe is ■ Pleasant Mills at ■ I Berne Saturday Berne at Fort Wayne Central! Catholic tw>en Gary and Valparaiso. The remaining games of the two sectionals will be played at Hammond and Gary 3 \dvai..ts| the Martlng date for 14 15 and. 16 t»-am -ectionals from Thursday to Wednesday. February 26. 4 I pped the price of admission I ' ..• n. H h . • nts. 5 Im reased the number of offi-! < jaS in r< .-ionals from two to’ thr-e 6 Said tioi.ai winners at .V.dersmi. Danville*. Greenfield and Indianapolis would participate in a regional tourney to lie ponsored by Arsenal Technical high school in Indianapolis and plajgpd nt the Butler fieldhouse In justification of the price increast - the association said they j ■ will in part compensate the mem-; ler schools forth. increase in the | ■ o t of almost ev-ry Item involved in the conduc t of a high school. program. ini-lnding basketball tourneys."

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we CENTRAL SOYA LEAGUE Ma-ters Mixer* w-m three from Truckers; M ami R won three* from ; Better Halves; Protein won three 1 from Blue Prints, Pencil pushers, won two f om Dul»«. Expeller won! ‘two from Erasers; Aualits won; 1 from TrafficStanding •«.. (First Half Final) W L ih-ticilpuahers 30 is | Vmilltc 29 19 ! Protein 2S 2't* Eraser* » . 27 21 I Traffic 27 21 i M A R • . 27 21 j • ! '■ : Mi vets ' 212! Better Halves . 23 25 Dubs ... 22 26 i Blue Prints 21 27, Expeller 19 29 I T k*-i 11 37 High games: Men Risce 200. Women Rowdon 179. Ma< la* »n. A’7. S helmet 187, Woidward 184. 0 — With an area only a little larger I than that of New Mexico. Norway ha* a jagged, fjord-cut coastline of more than 12,0m,' miles. Trade In a Good Town — Decatur

Foreign War Vels Take League Game I The bad weather played hoh with scheduled games in the Adams county independent net league Thursday night. Willshire was unable to put a teapi on the floor i because of illness sind ft* game with McMillen was postponed’.! Hoagland wa- unable to get its yen to the gym. and tin K. of C. team was substituted to play VFW in a regular league game. VFW defeated the K. of 46 to 41 after trailing at the half. 24 to 15 Baker of the lowers wifi* the high scorer with 17 points, iihile Werllng - 11 were high for VFW. M< Millen defeated the Rockford. O Eagles in an exhibition game, 69 to 42 after holding only a Jivepoint lead. 24 to 19 at th- half. D Schnepf was high for M<Millen with 19 points, followed by Crist with 18. Crigim paced the with 13 points. Me Millen will play Smitfy’s Restaurant ot-C , at the Lincoln gym at 8:30 p. m. Saturday. No admission will be charges) and th- public is invited to attend The manager of the Coldwater team is a brother of Carl Smith ; ofthi-.ity McMillen FG FT TP D Schnepf. f .... 8 3 19 Crist, f.. .. ... .. 8 2 18 I K Schnepf, c 5- 1 11 ' Herschy, g -.3 17 |J. Schnepf. g .. ..It 11 | Williamson, f .. ..4 1 9 Kistler, g.. ... .... 2 0 4

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COLLEGE BASKETBALL *1 t’CLA 59. Purdue 52. Butler 52. Indiana 41. Arizona 45, Michigan State 43. Harvard 64. Westminster 62. Western Kentucky 62. Bowling Green 43. 1 New York U. 61. Rochester 31. 0 Some nice young quarters of beef; also iwef for canning and summer sausage at wholesale prices. — H. I’. Schmitt Locker Service. I———————1 ———————

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Byrd Expedition - Plane Is Missing * Plane Is Missing On Exploratory Flight Washington. Jan. ' 3.-(CPI A navy patrol plane carrying eight <-w- memte-r* with the Byrd expedition to the Antarctic ha* been misuing on an exploratory Hi-xht since Bee. 30 The navy announced today. The plane, a PBM Mariner left tr im the seaplane tender Pine Island early in the morning of Dec. 3<’ It felled to return on the name afternoon a* scheduled. The navy said search and rescue operations have been hampered by bad weather condition*. Open weather was reported In the plane’s patrol area, however, and "it be hoped that the plane may ( have made a xafe landing.” the navy said. « The laM report from the plane pl oed its position off the tip of the Demas mountains on Ellsworth Land between the Franklin D. Roosevelt Sea and Bellingshausen ' Sea. Tite navy said the plane might be down gomewhere in open water in j the BellingHhaueen Sea. Resume Search McChord. Field. Wash., Jan. 3. — iII P) Air rescue unit planes took Gff from here today to resume the search for a marine transport plane, missing since Dec. 10 with 32 persons alma id. The search centered In the rugged mountain area 10 mile* Southwest of I-a Grande. Ore., after a ' pas.ienger In a private plane which I ■ landed at the Prosser. Wash., airport reported seeing the word ; aeroplane” (GQ) Inscribed in the ; snow. H. Hogue. Payette. Ida, said he! had seen the five-foot-high letters ; and an arrow pointing southward | which had I wen tramped in the | new-fallen an aw. He «*!d the letters harked "frewh" because snow I .‘had not drifted over them. Air-sea rescue planes were dis-1 patched from here to investigate | the report in hop** of finding the ■ marine transport which disappeared during a storm over Toledo. I Wash , on a flight from San Diego i I to Seattle. 0 Gl Proud as Royalty Anna. 111.,—(I'Pl-Royalty, or at, least the faint shadow of what ueed ! to Ire royalty, is visiting this small i southern Illinois town. T-5 J. C. Turner is the proud owner of an ancient Roll* Royce ' that he claims was the proparty of King George of England, and was ' presented by the king to a former 1 govetnor of Virginia. When new the car cost |15,0410. according to the Gl. bnt he bought it for 1200. The chief drawback Is that the vehicle gets only 10 miles to the gallon of "petrol ” 1

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Report Is Made By Un-American Group Congress May 0. K. Most Suggestions Washington. Jan. 3 — (I’Pl — Rep. J. Parnell-Thomas. R.. N. J., predicted today that congress will turn thumbs clown on a house unAmerican activities committee proposal to force foreign language newspapers to duplicate their contents in English. Thomas, who will he chairman of the committee in the new con gross, said he thought the congress would okay most of the other suggestions by the old com mittre for cvrbiTig subversive elements. "But I just can’t see congress approving this newspaper recommendation," he said. "I’m afraid it would be the opening wedge in the destruction of the freedom of the press." In Its year-end report, the committee* also proposed that aliens be barred from holding office in laljor unions and said federal jobs j should l>e reserved exclusively for ' citizens. It also proposed an in- < dependent commission with pow I er to fire disloyal government employes. Thomas said the foreign lang uage paper proposals was "dangerous” Itecause it would affect some church publications and many foreign language papers

•■■■■ ■ ■■ I \ BASKETBALL TONIGHT ■ B A ■ M ■ i Decatur Yellow Jackets vs. : WARSAW ■ ; Jr.-Sr. High School Gym—B P. M. ■ A good Ramp is a.<sured. Come out ■ and help the Yellow Jackets win. I • Second Teams Preliminary—7 P. M. ■ ■ ■ a a a b a a a a a aa.a-a • •

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, which are doing a good I , would t>e the first to i.-gp u *3| J defense of Americ an id» a |»-B He said many of these I would he driven out of simply because they could ford to buy the additional JI and newsprint necessary to ,1 Usch !»<>th tn English amt a p* 1 language. Snails ar<* nearsighted aß( i 9 not see lieyond a few inc beg .f ' I SENATOR AIUN Vs. BARKLD Kentucky has added someth r.cAv for the 80th congresses session. Because the people ass for a change In the Nove® elections, the former msjee. floor leader decided to givs j old colleagues one—a roT duster. (Inttrnttm