Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 5, Decatur, Adams County, 7 January 1948 — Page 6

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Yellow Jackets

Jackets Down Vikings' Five Tuesday Night The Decatur Yellow Jackets, leading practically all the way. defeated the Huntington Vikings, 2921, in a low-scoring game Tuesday night at the Huntington gym. In a slow first quarter, the Yellow Jackets took a 6-4 lead. Huntington moved into a 9-8 lead, led by baskets by Hires and Schultz, but a pair of fielders by McAlhaney enabled the Yellow Jackets to go back in front and hold a half-time margin of 13-10. Decatur played its best hall of the game in the third quarter. The Jackets limited the Vikings to only three points, while Decatur tallied 13 to hold a 26-13 lead as the final ■period opened. The Yellow Jackets were out in front by 28-15 with only three minutes of playing time remaining, a late flurry by the Vikings cutting Decatur’s final margin to eight points at 29-21. McAlhaney and Lehman shared scoring honors for the Yellow Jackets with 12 points each. McAlhaney counted his dozen markers on five field goals and two free throws, while Lehman chipped in four fielders and a like number from the foul line. Huntington's scoring was well divided. Passwater leading the Vikings with six points. Each team missed 12 free throws, ■with Decatur counting seven points from the foul line and Huntington five. Sixteen personal fouls were assessed the Vikings and 13 were whistled against the Yellow Jackets. The Yellow Jackets will take to the road again Friday, meeting the Columbia City Eagles at Columbia City in a Northeastern Indiana conference battle. The Jackets will not appear on their home floor again until January 30, when they entertain the Auburn Red Devils. Decatur FG FT TP Ballard, f Oil McAlhaney, f 5 2 12 Holmes, c 0 0 0 Freeby, g 2 0 4 Lehman, g 4 4 12 Baughn. f 0 0 0 Bohhke, c 0 0 0 Bogner, g 0 0 0 Totals 11 7 29 Huntington FG FT TP Buzzard, f 12 4 Brumleve, f (TOO Truitt, c 0 0 0 Cozad, g 0 0 0 Martin, g 0 0 0 Schultz, f 1 0 2 ’

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County Tourney

Week's Schedule Os Adams County Basketball Teams i Thursday County tournament at Yellow Jackets gym. Friday County tournament at Yellow Jackets gym. Yellow Jackets at Columbia City. Saturday County tournament at Yellow Jackets gym. i Hires, f 2 15 I Smith, c 0 11 ' Passwater, g 3 0 6 Totals 8 5 21 Referee:—Mullins. Umpire:—Metzger. Preliminary Decatur 32, Huntington 23.

Berne Bears Defeat Columbia City Five The Berne Bears, led by a threeman scoring punch, defeated the Columbia City Eagles, 47-42, Tuesday night at the Berne gym. The Bears held a 32-21 lead at the half. Liechty was Berne’s top scorer with 20 points, followed by Krehbiel with 15 and Sprunger with 10. Adams led the Eagles with 11 points. Berne FG FT TP Ellenberger, f 0 11 Schwartz, f .. 0 0 0 Krehbiel, c 71 15 Sprunger, g 4 2 10 Liechty, g 9 2 20 Weller, f 0 0 0 McCrory, g 0 11 Totals 20 7 47 Columbia City FG FT TP Stalf, f 3 4 10 Fahl, f 2 3 7 Clapp, c 3 3 9 Adams, g T 5 1 11 Tucker, g 0 11 Parrott, f 2 0 4 Lloyd, f 0 0 0 Totals 15 12 42 Referee:—Todd. Umpire:—Collyer. Preliminary Berne 32, Columbia City 21. Fox Hunt Saturday In Union Township Union township is planning a fox hunt Saturday morning. All persons planning to take part are asked to meet at 8 a.m. Saturday at the cross road south of the Bleeke church.

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Intramural League ’ Results Announced The Cats edged the Eagles, 14-13, the Pistons nosed out the Maroons, 11-10. and the London Bobbies defeated the All-Stars. 20-18, Tuesday night in the lightweight division of the intramural league at the Decatur junior-senior high school. Eagles FG FT TP J. Lake f — 0 0 0 D. Johnson f 0 0 0 K. Nash c 0.0 0 B. Strickler g 13 5 M. Smith g 2 2 6 D. Winteregg f 0 0 0 P. Johnson f 0 0 0 J. Thompson g 10 2 TOTALS 4 5 13 Cats FG FT. TP, B. Macy f 0 0 0 B. Lane f ... 10 2 S. Daniels c 1 0 2 N. Hesher g 2 0 4 B. Smith g 2 2 6 F. Mcßride f 0 0 0 TOTALS 6 2 14 Maroons FG FT TP C. Jones f 0 11 M. Johnson f 2 1 5 M. Lister c 0 0 0 B. Doan g 0 0 0 C. Smitley g__ 10 2 S. Gilbert f - 0 0 0 Ladd g 10 2 TOTALS 4 2 10 Pistons FG FT TP Egly f 0 0 0 Busse f .... 2 15 Sommer c 113 J. Doan g 113 Johnsop g -■■- 0 0 0 Callow f 0 0 0 McGill g 0 0 0

TOTALS 4 3 11 All-Stars FG FT TP B. Lenhart f 4 2 10 K. Runyon f 0 0 0 N. Blocker c - 0 0 0 F. Isch g 2 4 8 R. Smith g 0 0 0 C. Cottrell f 0 0 0 F. Peck f 0 0 0 R. Bollinger f •■■■-_ 0 0 0 TOTALS 6 6 18 London Bobbies FG FT TP T. Troutner f 2 0 4 H. Kitson f 0 0 0 J. Lobsiger c __ ■ 0 0 0 D. Smith g 2 4 8 K. Durbin g 4 0 8 D. Sheets f DOO J. McDonald f 0 0 O' TOTALS S 4 20 o PRO BASKETBALL National League Indianapolis 63, Toledo 56. 0 Pretending to what you are not suggests a little shame in being what you are. o Full time Insurance Agent, Kenneth Runyon, K. C. Bldg., Phone day or night.

WOULD FREE (Contlnuea from Pa<e 1) 000 after taxes while many families were suffering hardship because of the high cost of living. He proposed tax rate adjustments "so that those least able to pay will have their burden lessened by the transfer of a portion of it to those best able to pay. Mr. Truman's proposed hike in minimum wages would be the equivalent of a boost from sl6 to a minimum of S3O per 40 hour week. He asked more funds for anti-trust enforcement and stronger legislation to protect competition against monopoly. The president called on industry to invest $50,000,000,000 (B) in the next few years to explain and improve production facilities. He told congress our social security structure was only half-fin-ished. The message proposed broader coverage and higher pay levels for unemployment compensation, old age benefits and survivors’ benefits. This should be accompanied, Mr. Truman continued, by a national system of payment for medical care based on insurance principles and substantial federal assistance to overcome educational inadequacies in any state. “Our ultimate aim,” he said, "must be a comprehensive insurance system to protect all our people against insecurity and 111. . health.”

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Eight Teams Will Vie For County Title ’ The annual Adams county basketball tournament, with eight ttpms competing for the title, will ' open at the Decatur Yellow Jac--1 kets gymnasium Thursday night. 1 I The teams will be battling for 'I the county title, captured by the ' Monmouth Eagles last year. Entry ' of the Decatur Commodores into the tourney this year for the first ' time increased the total to the eight teams. The Decatur Yellow Jackets and Berne Bears do not participate in the county meet. Hansel Foley, Pleasant Mills ! principal and tourney manager, stated this morning that there likely will be approximately 200 tickets placed on sale as single session admission at the gym ticket office. These tickets are priced at 60 cents. Disrupted telephone communic* tions made it impossible for an exact check of season ticket sales, Mr. Foley stated, but indications point to the availability of the some 200 single session tickets. The tourney will get underway at 7:15 p.m. Thursday, with the Geneva Cardinals and Pleasant Mills Spartans battling in the opener. Winding up the Thursday night schedule, the defending champion Monmouth Eagles will tangle with the Jefferson ’Warriors. One of the feature games of the tourney is expected at Friday night's opener, when the Decatur Commodores and Hartford Gorillas clash at 7:15 o’clock. Each of these teams has lost only two games this season, and these teams generally are picked w’ith Monmouth as three-way favorites for the county. The first round will close with the Monroe Bearkatz and Kirkland Kangaroos battling at 8:30 p.m. Semi-finals will be played Saturday afternoon. W’inners of the two Thursday night games will meet in the first semi-final tilt at 12:45 p.m. Saturday, followed by the Friday night winners at 2

o’clock. The tourney champion will be decided when the Saturday afternoon semi-final victors meet at 8 o'clock Saturday night. This will be the only game of the final session. Officials for all games will be Marvin Todd and George Collyer, both prominent Fort Wayne officials. 0 Man Arrested For Slaying Divorcee Boston, Jan. 7 —(UP) — A 22-year-old railroad employe was held today for slaying a 30-year-old blonde divorcee. Police said he admitted strangling her because she made him think of his estranged wife. John J. Bullock, a brakeman of the Boston & Maine railroad, was arrested last night after his mother telephoned police and said: “You'd better come up here. My son just told me that he has killed a woman." Bulock led police to a Roxbury apartment where the nude

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H. 5. BASKETBALL Kendallville 52, LaGrange 41. Woodburn 48, Payne (O.) 25. Fort Wayne North 43, Goshen 30. Evansville Memorial 57. Washington Catholic 42. Shelbyville 44, Madison 43. Evansville Bosse 62, Princeton 53. Terre Haute Wiley 59, Sullivan 37. Terre Haute Gerstmeyer 31, Clin-

ton 26. Martinsville 54, Linton 38. Indianapolis Shortridge 43, Indianapolis Cathedral 36. _ ( Lafayette Jeff 59. Lebanon 27. Crawfordsville 38, West Lafayette 33. East Chicago Washington 44, Gary Emerson 38. 0 St. Joe Graders Lose To Kirkland The St. Joe eighth grade team, after a close battle for three quarters. dropped a 24-18 decision to Kirkland Tuesday afternoon. The teams were tied at the first quarter, 5-5, Kirkland led at the half, 12-11 and at the third period, 15-13. Longenberger topped the winners with nine points, and Costello and Osterman each counted five for St. Joe. FG FT TP H. Arnold f 2 0 4 Longenberger f 4 19 Habegger c 0 0 0 Arnold g 2 2 6 Worthman g 0 0 0 D. Longenberger f 0 0 0 Bertsch c 0 0 0 Ehrman g 13 5 Landis g 0 0 0

TOTALS 9 6 24 St. Joe FG FT TP Gase f 10 2 Hackman f 113 Costello c „ 2 15 Laurent g 10 2 Osterman g __ 13 5 Coney f - 0 11 Gage f 0 0 0 Miller f 0 0 0 Brunton f ... 0 0 0 Gase c 0 0 0 Harris c 0 0 0 Myers g 0 0 0 Baker g .... 0 0 0 TOTALS 6 6 18

body of Mrs. Virginia L. Boberg w r as found sprawled on a bed, covered only by a blanket. o —— Report 3,600 Strikes In Nation Last Year Washington, Jan. 7— (UP) — The labor department said today there were about 3,600 strikes last year — 1,400 fewer than the alltime record set in the first full postwar year of 1946. In a summary of last year’s labormanagement disputes, the department estimated that 35,000,000 mandays were lost through strikes during 1947 It said this was less than one-third the total work loss a year earlier. Almost half of the 1947 work loss was attributed to strikes in the telephone, soft coal and shipbuilding industries. ———o ———— Don’t imagine you are great because you possess some eminent man’s weakness.

Jefferson Defeated By One-Point Margin The Jefferson Warriors dropped a heart breaker to Madison of Jay county, 50-49, at the Berne auditorium Tuesday night. Madison led at all periods, 7-4, 19-18 and 34-29, but Jefferson pulled within one point and the final gun fired just a second before the W’arriors cut loose with a successful shot which would have won the game if fired an instant sooner. Ballard and Prescott led the winners with 16 points each, and Smitley was high for Jefferson with 15. Madison

FG FT TP Ballard, f 8 0 16 Prescott, f 7 2 16 Powell, c , 2 2 6 Stump, g 113 Lemaster, g .2 3 7 Schuver. c 0 0 0 Barna, g 10 2 Totals 21 8 50 Jefferson FG FT TP Wall, f 3 2 8 Smitley, f 6 3 15 Kuhn, c 0 3 3 Wellman, g 4 19 Miller, g 0 0 0 Wendell, f .... 4 3 11 Debolt, f 11 3 Totals 18 13 49 Referee: —Arnold. Umpire:—Arnold. Preliminary Madison 28, Jefferson 24. 0 Dewey Blames Truman For Price Increases

Albany, N. Y„ Jan. 7—(UP)— Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, potential Republican presidential candidate, today blamed the Truman administration for high prices and advocated state measures to halt runaway inflation without waiting for federal action. In his opening message to the 171st New York legislature, on the same day as President Truman's state of the union message to congress, Dewey said the “inflationary whirlwind” has brought the nation to the brink of economic ruin. o Nebraska’s 3-cent cigarette tax yielded almost $1,250,000 during the first quarter of thel947-48 fiscal year.

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Wm. Green Opposes Wallace Candidacy Washington, Jan. 7 —(UP) AFL president William Green today lined up with other labor leaders opposed to Henry A. Waliace as an independent randidate for president. “I’m against him,” Green announced. “Creation of a third party is a great political mistake and labor generally will be opposed to Wallace.” P. Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers (CIO>. and Jack Kroll, director of the CIO political action committee, are among other labor leaders to come out against Wallace. Green has also declared against Sen. Robert A. Taft. R., 0., as a Republican presidential nominee. > o Texas Blonde Named As Maid Os Cotton Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 7 —(UP) — A stately, blonde Texas’ beauty, 19-year-old Matilda Nail of Fort Worth, reigned today as the 1948 maid of cotton. She gasped “it can’t be me!” here last night when she was handed the huge bouquet of roses and cotton bolls signifying that judges had chosen her from among 22 southern belles to be cotton’s international goodwill ambassador. Today the blue-eyed University of Texas student began a round of entertainments and travels that will include a six-months, 35,000-mile tour of this country, France and Great Britain to display the latest styles in cotton. o The National Safety Council said 12,500 traffic accident fatalities occurred in urban areas the past year.

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