Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 289, Decatur, Adams County, 9 December 1947 — Page 8

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Detailed Plans Announced For Jan. 1 Tourney Detailed plans for the annual New Years day four-team tournament were announced today byFred F. Park, principal of the Bluffton high school, where this season’s tourney will be held. Competing teams are the Decatur Yellow Jackets, Bluffton Tigers, Berne Bears and New Haven Bulldogs. The tourney will be held at the Bluffton co m inunity building Thursday, January 1. Afternoon games will be held at 2 and 3 p.m., following the draw to be made at 1 p.m. Losers in the afternoon contests will meet in a consolation game at 7 p.m., with the afternoon winners meeting for the tourney title at 8 p.m. Leonard Ireland and Clifford Kraning, both of Hartford City, will officiate the games, and J. F. I.armore, of the Bluffton high school faculty, will be official timer. Schools will provide scorekeepers. | All seats in the Bluffton gym •will be reserved for this tourney. Bach school will receive approximately 375 season tickets, taking care of the gym’s seating capacity of 1,500. Season tickets are priced at sl. These tickets are to be delivered to the competing schools by Dec. 16, and all unsold tickets are to be returned to Bluffton by Dec. 22. Single session tickets, if available, will be priced at 50 cents. Mr. Park also announced that Bluffton restaurants will be open after the afternoon session to accomodate out-of-town fans. 0 COLLEGE BASKETBALL Illinois 40, Notre Dame 38. Purdue 60, Nebraska 56. Wisconsin 61. Butler 53. Wabash 50, Manchester 48. Indiana State 71, Wes Texas 50. Hillsdale 32, Tri-State 30. Marquette 67, Brigham Young 51. lowa State 43, Simpson 29. — o - Trade In a Good Town — Decatur () o — Last Time Tonight — Technicolor Musical! "I WONDER WHO’S KISSING HER NOW” June Haver, Mark Stevens ALSO —Shorts 9c-40c Inc. Tax O O WED. & THURS. o - ' O OUR BIG DAYS’ I First Show Wed. at 6:30 Continuous Thur, from 1:301 BE SURE TO ATTEND! o o EXTRA ATTRACTION! NEWSREEL PICTURES OF ROYAL WEDDING! —o—o || . i IMVERSAL INTERNATIONAL presents B A EDMOND O’BRIEN /J KRAiNES A Ml WILLIAM j ■ BENDIX 11 1 Oil VINCENT 1/ -1 BPRICE M MAR.A PALMER JOHN ABBOTT I ■ FRITZ LEIBER HOWLAND CHAMBERLIN ■ O—O Fri. &. Sat. —“The Unsuspected” O—O Coming Sun. — “Cry Wolf”

Week's Schedule Os Adams County Basketball Teams T uesday Yellow Jackets at Hoagland. Willshire at Pleasant Mills. Wednesday Commodores vs HuntiJgton Catholic at DHS. Monroeville at Monmouth. Friday Monroe at Yellow Jackets. Berne at Hartford township. Hoagland at Monmouth. Lancaster at Kirkland. Bryant at Geneva. Jefferson at Gray. Legion Team Scores Ninth Win In Row The Decatur American Legion team scored its ninth victory in succession Monday night, defeating the tough Beck’s Plumbing quintet of Fort Wayne, 59 to 54. at the Lincoln gym in this city. Decatur was out in front all the way, 16-6 at the first quarter, 2313 at the half and 38-29 at the third period. Zurcher was Decatur's top scorer with 15 points, and Deinelt pac- ' ed the Fort Wayne team with 18. Decatur FG FT TP Mansfield, f 2 0 4 D. Schnepf, f . 4 1 9 K. Schnepf, c 5 1 11 Crist, g 3 2 8 Zerkel, g 2 0 4 Melchi, f 2 0 4 Zurcher, f 6 3 15 Cochran, c 0 0 0 Hershey, g 2 0 4 J. Schnepf, g 0 ~0 0 . Totals 26 7 59 Beck's FG FT TP Shopoff, f 3 3 9 Deinelt, f 7 4 18 Glass, c 2 0 4 Stauski, g 3 2 8 Spencer, g 2 0 4 Beery, c 2 2 6 Keller, g 2 15 Totals 21 12 54 Referee: —Strickler. Umpire:—Vizard. 0 PRO BASKETBALL National League Anderson 62. Indianapolis 54. o Decatur G. E. Girls Beat Geneva, 26-21 The Decatur G. E. girls basketball team defeated the Geneva girls 26 to 21 in a game played at the Catholic high school gym last night. Hurless was high scorer for Decatur with 11, and Meyer was high for Geneva with 12. The Decatur girls will play Farnsworth in a Fort Wayne league game Friday night. o Central Soya Plays Here This Evening I - 111 The Central Soya net team will play the White Service team of Fort Wayne at the Lincoln gym in this city at 8 o’clock tonight. Whether — it’s a hanky or a coat, we gift wrap FREE of’ charge. I E. F. Gass Store Exclusive Ladies Wear CORT o o — Last Time Tonight — “WHEN A GIRL’S BEAUTIFUL” Adele Jergens, Marc Platt & “DANGER STREET” Jane Withers, Robt. Lowery 9c-30c Inc. Tax 0 — 0 THURS. FRI. SAT. “THUNDER MOUNTAIN” Zane Grey Thriller With TIM HOLT ALSO—Three Stooges Comedy O—O Coming Sun. — "The Trespasser” & .‘Dick Tracy's Dilemma.”

Record Trades Expected From Major Leagues BULLETIN New York, Dec. 9—(UP) — The St. Louis Browns today traded second baseman Johnny Berardino to the Cleveland Indians for outfielder George Metkovich and an estimated $50,000 in cash. New York. Dec. 9—(UP)—Brooklyn was reported readying a new deal with Pittsburgh as the major leagues opened their annual meetings here today anticipating a • record number of trades. The Brooks had started the bartering fireworks with their swap of Dixie Walker. Vic Lombardi, and Hal Gregg for the Pirates’ Bily Cox, Preacher Roe and Gene Mauch. There were many who thought that the Dodgers were on the short end of that deal, but willingly so because of new business in the wind with Pittsburgh. Meanwhile, the Washington Senators finally disposed of Gerry Priddy to the St. Louis Browns. At first, Priddy went to the Browns in return for Johnny Berardino. That deal subsequently was nullified by commissioner A. B. Chandler when Berardino revealed his retirement from baseball. However, last night secretary Eddie Eyon of the Washington club announced that the Browns had purchased Priddy outright for $25,06'0. In addition to sending Priddy to St. Louis, the deal eased some of the criticism aimed at the Browns for peddling top players to the Boston Red Sox. The $25,000 paid for Priddy could be taken as,confirmation of general manager Bill DeWitt’s statement that his team was reshuffling, not going out of business. The Boston Braves, meanwhile, added Fat Freddie Fitzsimmons to their list of coaches. Fitzsimmons, former Giant and Brooklyn pitching ace and once manager of the Phillies, announced that he had resigned as general manager of the football Dodgers to sign as pitching coach for the Braves. Manager Bill Southworth of the Boston club said frankly that he was delighted with obtaining Fitzsimmons' services. “I’ve been trying to get him ever since I took over in 1946;,” South worth explained. At the same time he announced resigning his Brooklyn football job, Fitzsimmons denied that he had received an offer from the baseball Giants. There had been wide-spread reports that he was about to join the club as a coach. Today's opening of the major league meetings featured individual sessions for the American and National loops. Routine business figured - to take up most of the time, except for the inevitable huddling over trades and sales. One subject due for discussion was a change in the start of spring training, now set at March 1. The moguls seek to move this up some, although they promise to avoid any drawn-out exhibition schedules. Too, the Browns were due to ask for unlimited night baseball —without the requisite of permission from the visiting clubs. 0 Trade in n Good Town — Decatur 0 Delicious Pangburn’s Candy in beautiful Christmas packages at Kohne’s Drug store.2Bßt2

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Kirkland Alumni Beat Local Team • Decatur • Independents lost to Kirkland Alumni in a basketball game played Monday night at Kirkland gymnasium by a score of 3429. The score was close all the way with Ehrman, Kirkland guard counting 12 points for the winners and Beehler, Decatur center, getting 10 points for the losers to lead the scoring. Kirkland led all the way but never by more than 5 points. The halftime score was 21-17. Lineup and summary: Kirkland FG FT TP Heare, f 10 2 Henschen f Oil Fruchte c —■ 3 4 10 Barger g/. 0 0 0 Ehrman g 6 0 12 Mankey g 10 2 Rumple g .... .. 3 17 Totals 14 6 34 Decatur FG FT TP Rice f 2 0 4 Heller f .... 0 0 0 Arnold f 4 0 8 Beehler c 3 4 10 Kingsley g 0 0 0 L. Arnold g •. .... 10 2 Cowens' g 0 0 0 Grant g 2 15 totals 12 5 29 o Legion Team Plays Tuesday, Thursday The Decatur American Legion basketball team will play the Au--1 burn Legion team at Auburn tonight, and will play Caswell Run- : y*n at the Huntington college gym I Thursday night.

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SMILING Gerard Rood, 8, recuperating at Brooklyn, N. Y., hospital from the loss of both legs in a trolley accident last January, is recipient of $87,500 in a $250,000 action brought against city in boy’s behalf. (IhternationaD Q The huge chrysanthemum belongs to the same family as the field daisy. o ? — GIFTS at BAKER’S. 281t12 Remember when you think of Dry Cleaning Phone 147 KELLY DRY CLEANERS Across from G. E.

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District Veterinary Dinner This Evening The Northeastern Indiana veterinary medical association will have a dinner, followed by election of officers, a Christinas gift exchange and motion pictures, this evening at 6:30 o’clock at the Hotel Anthony, Fort Wayne. Movies will be shown on sheep scab, photosensitiization, and encephalomyelitis. Dr. B. V. Allen of Fort Wayne will preside. o Kent Realty Firm Will Open Monday The Kent Realty company, operated by C. W. Kent, will be opened Monday in the Leland Smith Building, 131 North First street. Announcement was made of the dissolution of the partnership of Mr. Kent and J. F. Sanmann in the Midwest Realty Auction company, which had Jjeen operating here until yesterday. 0 Evansville Man Fined On Vote Fraud Charge Evansville, Ind., Dec. 9 (UP) — John C. Arend, Evansville housing authority chairman, paid a SSOO fine today after pleading guilty to a vote fraud charge. Trial of Arend on charges of forging voters’ reinstatement cards had been scheduled to start Thursday. He entered a plea of guilty yesterday to an amended affidavit filed by his attorneys shortly before they were due to enter a challenge on methods used to draw names of 50 prospective extra jurors.

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SHIELDING her Mexican hairless Chihuahua pup against the cold, Mrs. John Jacob Astor holds him under her mink coat as she leaves a New York night club. Note “WowWow’s” beautiful, blue sapphire necklace. (International')

Osceola Buildings Destroyed By Fire South Bend, Ind., Dec. 9 —(UP)— Only charred ruins remained today of two Osceola buildings destroyed in a fire which for a short i

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