Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 278, Decatur, Adams County, 25 November 1947 — Page 6

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Samßreadon Sells Cards Io Syndicate St. Louis, Nov. 25 —(UP)—The St. Louis Cardinals were sold outright today for an estimated $3,500,000 — the largest transaction in baseball history— to a group headed by Robert E. Hannegan. The sale was announced at a press conference called by Sam Breadon, the little- white-haired man who built the club in 27 years from a shoestring team into one of the most flourishing in either major league. The announcement, came a few minutes after Hannegan announced his resignation as postmaster general to take over active direction of the Cardinals. Hannegan previously had paved the way for his taking over presidency of the Cards by resigning from the St. Louis Browns board of directors. The transaction included the Cardinals and the 20 minor league clubs they own or with which they have working agreements. A brief statement made by Breadon, after conferring with Hannegan at the Cards’ office at Sportsman’s park, said only that the sale of the club had been arranged by Hannegan and Fred Sigh, Jr., a St. Louis attorney. He said the price paid by Hannegan for Breadon’s 75 percent interest in the Cardinals would not be divulged. Other sources previously had put the price involved in the transaction at $3.500,000. Breadon’s statement said in part: "The majority control of the Cardinals was sold to Bob Hannegan with a partner in the deal. Fred Sigh. Hannegan will personally have controlling interest in the club. “It is unpleasant for me to dispose of the Cardinals, but I believe, in the interest of the Cardinals, a man of the character and ability of Bob Han negan, a younger man, will be O o — Last Time Tonight — In Technicolor! “DESERT FURY’’ Lizabeth Scott, John Hodiak ALSO—Shorts 9c-40c Inc. Tax ‘ 6 O WED. & THURS. o — o OUR BIG DAYS’ i First Show Wed. at 6:30 Continuous Thur, from 1:30 BE SURE TO ATTEND! o o

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Week's Schedule Os Adams County Basketball Teams Tuesday Berne at Portland. Geneva at Petroleum. Hartford at Petroleum. Wednesday Commodores vs Alumni at Catholic gym. Monmouth at Kirkland. e Monroe vs Pleasant Mills at 1 Berne. Friday Jefferson at Geneva. a— — - ' able to do more in keeping the Cardinals in the position they B are today than I could from now d ° n ‘ Hannegan said he resigned all ( political offices in order to take R over as chairman of the Cardinals board of directors. He said Sigh, the principal minority stockholdv er. would be vice-president and treasurer. r Hannegan said other directors n were GWynne Evans. W. C. Conr nett. Sidney Salomon, Jr., Davis e R. Calhoun, Jr., and George W. Simpkins, all of St. Louis. ; Hannegan’s statement said: e ‘This is the happiest homecomr ing of my life — my return as h president of the St. Louis Cardin- ■- als. “From my boyhood days I have g held fast to the belief that Sam :i Breadon and the Cardinals were t champions. Not only of clean t sports — but in the eyes of the - nation they have become like our 1 churches, schools, hospitals, parks and press—one of St. Louis' finest civic assets. t o ' Junior High Beats Convoy, 25 To 17 1 Using 18 players. Decatur Junior e high defeated Convoy, 0., 25 to 17, at the Lincoln gym in this city 1 Monday afternoon. Decatur led at the half, 18 to 5. 4 Moses led Decatur with nine points, ’ while Convoy’s scoring was well ’’ divided. it Decatur FG FT TP e Brokaw -• 2 15 1- Bell 3 0 6 e Kolter .10 2 Moses 4 19 Gaffer 1 0 2 | Custer —- 0 0 0 , Everett 0 0 0 Morrison 0 0 0 i Carter 0 11 t Kohne 0 0 0 Schieferstein ..... 0 0 0 1 Engle 0 0 0 I Metzger 0 0 0 i Pollock ■ 0 0 0 i Oman 0 0 0 ; Ailerson 0 0 0 Shrock . —■ 0 0 0 Koons 0 0 0 0 TOTALS 11 3 25 ....Convoy FG FT TP Myers - -— 0 0 0 I Small —1 0 2 Wyant —0 0 0 0 Barkley ... 10 2 . Gaskill .... 2 0 4 | Owens 0 0 0 | Schaadt — 12 4 Helm 11 3 1 Clay 10 2 j Mollenkopf 0 0 0 » TOTALS 7 3 17 I o VIOLENCE FLARES | (Continued from Page 1) £ At the same time another leftJ Ist crowd attacked and devastatI ed the common man party headI quarters. I Police arrested the ringleader | of the attack on the agricultural 3 building. He was identified as a | communist, Elio Della Casa. | o I I'rnde in a Goofl Town «■— Decatur II CORTI 0 o — Last Time Tonight — | “FEAR in the NIGHT" * Paul Kelly, Ann Doran & “NORTH of RIO GRANDE" With Hopalong Cassidy ’ J 9c-30c Inc. Tax 0 0 THURS. FRI. SAT. ALLAN LANE as “Red Ryder" in “RUSTLERS OF DEVIL’S CANYONS” o—o Coming Sun. —“Hat Box Mystery” & “Bells of San Fernando" —o CLOSED WEDNESDAY

Five Michigan ' Men On All-Star Big Nine Team Chicago, Nov. 25 —(UP) — Michigan’s big nine football champions won five berths on the United Press all conference team today to dominate the All Star eleven as completely as the Wolverines ruled the grid race all season. Members of the championship squad who won spots on the first all conference team, selected for United Press by the big nine coaches, were end Bob Mann, tackle Bill Pritula, quarterback Howard ! Yerges and halfbacks Bob Chappuis and Bump Elliott. All of them stood out on the power-packed Michigan eleven, but both Mann and Pritula were definitely in the shadow of the three backfield men. Prouably more Michigan linemen would have made the honor team, except that most of them played only on offense or defense and not both. Chappuis, who won conference honors for yards gained in rushing and passing for the second consecutive year, was one of two players who was named on eight of the nine all conference selections of the coaches. The only other player who was equally popular was Leo Nomellini, Minnesota’s giant guard. And no player was a unanimous choice. Elliott followed Chappuis and Nomellini by a small margin. He was picked for the first team by all but two of the coaches. Yerges was picked on the first team by five selectors and on the second team by one. Thus only three coaches failed to include him in their 22 top men. With the exception of Chappuis and Nomellini, there was little agreement among the coaches as to the best players in the conference. On the nine teams, 66 players were mentioned and 42 of them won places on first teams. Eleven ends were listed, nine of them placed on the first team, thirteen tackles with 10 of them on top teams, thirteen guards with six mentioned on first teams, and 22 backs with 12 given first team honors. Next to Michigan, which also 1 won two spots on the second all conference team, Illinois had the ’ most stars. The Illini Aces, end > Ike Owens and fullback Russ Ste--3 ger, placed on the first team while 1; five from the Ray Eliot squad rat- • ed the second team. 1 Wisconsin's second place club I placed only one man, center Bob > Wilson. Only one man on the first I team and only three on the 22-man squad were from a second division 1 team in the conference. They were • guard Howard Brown, end Lau • Mihajlovich and halfback George > Taliaferro, all from Indiana. I Brown won a first team berth while 1 the other two were on the second ' team. • Ohio State, Northwestern, and 1 lowa failed to place a man on the first two teams. , o . League Games Are Played Yesterday I Three Junior high league games were played Monday evening at ' the Yellow Jackets gym. The ' White Sox whipped the Yankees, 20 to 5, the Cardinals edged the Dodgers. 18 to 16, and the Reds walloped the Braves, 24 to 7. Yankees FG FT TP Hurst, f Oil Gilbert, f 0 0 0 Thompson, c 10 2 Reidenbach, g 10 2 Sudduth, g 0 0 0 TOTALS 2 1 5 White Sox Abbott, f 0 0 0 Brunner, f 10 2 T. Cole, c 5 0 10 LaWson, g 10 2 Isch. g 2 2 6 . Nelson, g 0 0 0 Blackburn, f 0 0 0 TOTALS 9 2 20 Dodgers FG FT TP G. Harvey, f 0 0 0 N. Andrews, f -— 3 2 8 R. Cole, c __ 2 0 4 J. Nelson, g 0 0 0 E. Stocksdale. g — 2 0 4 J. Rennels, f 0 0 0 Black, g 0 0 0 TOTALS 7 2 16 Cardinals Helm, f 10 2 Duff, f 2 0 4 Llby, c 4 0 8 Hott, g 0 0 0

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BILL VEECK (left), Cleveland Indians president, congratulates . Lou Boudreau, on signing two-year contract to be playing-manager of Indians. Both said they were “very satisfied" with contract which Veeck said was better than last year's when the star short-stop-manager received a reported $35,000.

> Roop, g 10 2 Thomas, f 0 0 0 ; McDonald, g 10 2 Andress, g 0 0 0 TOTALS 9 0 18 Reds FG FT TP L. Andrews, f 0 0 0 E. Ritter, f 2 0 . 4 B. Roe. c 3 J 7 J. Conrad, g 3 1 D. Foor, g 3 0 6 Lobsiger. f 0 0 0 Yoder, f 0 0 0 TOTALS 11 2 24 Braves iR. Secaur, f i 0 2 i A. Cole, f 1 0 s R. Murphy, c 1 0 ID. Reinking, g 0 0 0 I C. Johnson, g Oil ■D. Rambo, g 0 0 0 1 1 TOTALS 3 17 0 i y// d Classic League e Mies won three and total from Super Service; Ebonites won three and total from Smith Insurance; * Swearingen won two and total from b West End. Standing 1 W L Pts. a Ebonites 31 5 43 e Swearingen 21 15 30 1 West End 21 15 29 e Mies .... 17 19 21 L Super 11 25 14 e Smith .... 7 29 7 1 High series: Faulkner 613 (139- , 195-279); Tutewiler 604 (203-186-e 21S >' High games: Engle 204, Bleeke 209, Bayles 210, Ladd 206-201, Schultz 202, Zelt 210, Auuelman 205, Buuck 201, Mies 222, Young 202, Miller 205-207, Mclntosh 212. 0 MINISTERS OF (Continued from Page 1) s to be opposed strongly to recent 4 suggestions in the United States e that we go ahead with a separate ’> peace in Germany. He made known e ~ that he regards such talk as ris diculous and. impractical. The foreign ministers’ deputies, who met for two weeks before their 3 bosses began their discussions, could not agree on an agenda. In this "connection, radio Moscow broadcast an official Tass agency dispatch today blaming the United States for the failure of the depu- - ties to agree on anything. Bevin was the chief British delegate. The United States was represented by secretary of state George C. Marshall, France by foreign minister Georges BiDault and Russia by foreign minister Viacheslav M. Molotov. Their meetings will be secret, but each delegation will “brief” the - press afterward. 0 Trndp In n Good Town — <nr

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Annual Grid Bowl ; I Fever Reaches Peak t New York, Nov. 25—(UP)—The ’ Orange Bowl injected Kansas and William and Mary into its considerations today, and the Cotton Bowl upheld all action until Texas conceded the southwest conference invitation to SMU as the nation’s annual bowl fever reached its peak. Southern California and Michigan were formally declared the Rose Bowl teams, but that was a matter of routine. New Hampshire was named to meet Toledo at Toledo, 0., in the second annual Glass Bowl, but that, too, failed to startle since New Hampshire replied a happy “yes” to Glass Bowl feelers last week. But the Orange and Cotton Bowls were still very much in the air. \ The Orange Bowl committee at Miami, Fla., would say nothing! definite. But it did admit that it had added Kansas and William and Mary to its list since last week’s , games. That was when Kansas , won a half-share in the big six championship by beating Missouri ! and W & M automatically took the the southern conference crown when North Carolina downed Duke. The SMU team, undefeated and j untied with only TCU to play, vot- ) ed yesterday on its choice for a ) Cotton Bowl opponent, and Penn 1 State was believed to be the select tion. Penn State cooperated by vot--7 ing to accept an invitation from a “reputable” bowl. However, the Cotton Bowl committee met for several hours last night and emerged from the closed session with this position: no ’ team can be named, because SMU could be tied for the southwest r championship and Texas has not conceded its rights to the bowl in such an eventuality. Such a tie would result if TCU beats SMU and Texas downs Texas A & M this week-end. Texas alt ready has indicated it would pass 3 up the Cotton Bowl in the case of a a tie, but the Dallas, Tex., comi mittee preferred to wait until this .- is official. Texas had little reason to fight for the Dallas bid, since a win r over the Aggies Thursday would , put it in the Sugar Bowl anyway 1 against Alabama, no matter what r happens to SMU. ? 0 1 Legion Team To Play iAt Uniondale Tonight The Decatur American Legion j basketball team will play at Union- . dale tonight. Members of the local j team are asked to meet at the Le- . gion home at 6:30 o’clock. o The combined assets of the 5 American farmers, according to Federal statistics, is 111 billion dollars. Before the last war they . were 54 billion.

St. Joe Graders Defeated By Wren Weakening after a close firsthalf defensive battle,. the St. Joe eighth grade team of Decatur dropped a 28 to 15 decision to Wren, 0., ■’at Wren Monday afternoon. St. Joe held a 4 to 2 lead at the first quarter and one of 8 to 4 at the half, but Wren moved into a 17 to 11 margin at the end of the third period. Custer led the winners with 10 points, while Hackman and Osterman each counted four for St. Joe. The St. Joe team will play the preliminary Wednesday night to the Commodores-Alumni team at the Catholic gym, meeting Deßolt school team at 7:15 o’clock. Wren FG FT TP Custer, f 5 0 10 Meyers, f Oil Laßrun, c 0 0 0 Turner, g 4 0 8 Gehres, g 4 0 8 Schaadt, f 0 0 0 Merkle, f 0 0 0 Dunmire, f 0 0 0 Schafer, f 0 0 ,0 Hamrick, c 0 11 Hurless, g 0 0 0 Totals 13 2 28 Decatur FG FT TP Gase, f 10 2 Hackman, f 2 0 4 Costello, c Oil Laurent, g 113 Osterman, g 12 4 Miller, g 0 0 0 Gass, g Oil Brunton, g 0 0 0 Totals 5 5 15 Referee: —Krugh. Umpire:—Thatcher. 0 Boudreau Signs New Two-Year Contract Cleveland, Nov. 25. —(UP) —Lou Boudreau held a new two-year contract today as manager of the Cleveland Indians and had another ex-manager—Herold (Muddy) Ruel —as one of his coaches. Six months of uncertainty were ended for Boudreau when he signed a contract with Tribe president Bill Veeck last night which Veeck termed “practically uncancellable.’ Veeck also announced the sign ing of the deposed manager of the St. Louis Browns to handle the Cleveland pitching and bullpen coaching. Ruel was fired from the Browns Nov. 3 and had been in negotiation with Veeck since. Boudreau must have spent manj an anxious moment wondering where he’d draw his next paycheck as Veeck openly tried to trade hirr to the St. Louis Browns. But yes terday all doubts were dispellec when' the one-time “boy manager’ inked a contract which Veecl termed “virtual.” That was a new high for se curity in a business where a five year contract sometimes doesn’ last five months. It probabli meant that Boudreau could not b< fired for any reason during th< two-year period. ff Warren G. Harding is the only journalist to become President o the United States. The population of the Unitec States when the first census was taken, in 1790, was 3,929,314. I’C/JPPI/" BUT CAN ' T HIRt J(/AAZ A SALESMAN WITH cross eyes Don *t let disfiguring cross eyes bar you fron > /Wr a bett er j° b - Reconstruc \ tion Method is often sue in only one day Safe, effective in ovei 6000 cases; all ages, all conditions. BOOKLET with FULL information m » this Non Profit Institution Write — CROSS EYE FOUNDATIOM 703 Community Bank Bldg. Pontiac. Michigaa 24-hour Wrecker Service AL SCHMITT 144 1539 after midnight Remember when you think’ of , Dry Cleaning Phone 147 ’ KELLY I DRY CLEANERS ’ Across from G. E.

Anderson Packers Defeat Rochester Anderson, Ind., Nov. 25 —(UP) — The Anderson Packers were back at the top of the eastern division of the National Professional Basketi ball league today after defeating . Rochester 75 to 58. The Packers led all the way in last night’s game, running up a 31 , to 24 margin at halftime. Bob Davies of Rochester was ’ high point man of the evening with , 21 points. Johnny Johnson led the Anderson scoring with 13 points. O 1 Stoner Rites Held . Monday Afternoon > ; Out of town persons who attend- > ed the graveside services for Pvt. John Hubbard Stoner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert H. Stoner of i Chicago at the Niblick mausoleum j in the Decatur cemetery Monday I afternoon, included: I Dr. and Mrs. Charles Ray Goff, j Floyd Stoner, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd ; Stoner, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur ) Carson, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Stoner, ) Mrs. John H. Hubbard, all of Chil cago; Mrs. Ella Stoner and niece j of Shelby, Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Kallenberg, Anderson; Mr. and ; Mrs. O. P. Edwards, Leipsic, Ohio; Mrs. Roger Swaim of Bluffton. j The services were conducted by Dr. M. O. Lester of the First Meth- , odist church and Dr. Goff of the , Chicago Temple. Pvt. Stoner was j killed in action with American L troops in Aachen, Germany in Novj ember, 1944. The body was return- ’ ed to Decatur last Saturday. ) _ 0 1 Church Services To ! Mark Berne Holiday Berne, Nov. 25 — Church services and family dinners will feature Thanksgiving here Thursday. Services will be held Thursday moqiing at the First Mennonite, Evangelical Mennonlte, Cross Reformed, First Missionary and W’est Missionary churches. Thanksgiving services will be held Wednesday evening at the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church and at the Linn a Grove churches. The Berne Nazarr ene church has revival meetings In e progress with services each eveni- ing. ) o Harry P. Fletcher 1- Dies In Michigan it k Fort Wayne, Ind., Nov. 24 —(UP) ” — Funeral services -will be held tov morrow for Harry P. Fletcher, 74, president of the Patterson - Fletche er Co. n Fletcher died yesterday in Ontonagon, Mich., where he had gone last

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