Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 2 February 1949 — Page 4

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Commodores Win; Yellow Jackets Lost

Commodores Beal Jefferson Tuesday Night Shattering their season's scoring record, the rejuvenated Decatur Commodores whipped the Jefferson Warriors 56-44 Tuesday night at the Berne auditorium. The victory, coming on the heels of last Friday night's upset of Kirkland, brought new hope to Commodores fans concerning prospects for the waning season. It was Decatur's fourth win in 15 starts. Never menaced by the lively but ineffective Warrior offense, the Commodores were in the lead 209, 31-20 and 40-26 at the turns. Decatur hit 22 of 59 times from the floor, compared to Jefferson's 15 for 74 average. To start the lopsided first quarter, Jim Meyer sank a field goal and a free throw, followed by buckets by Bill and Dave Gillig and a free toss by the former. A shot by Jefferson guard Wendel broke the monotony and the Coiffmodores led 8-2. John Kahle and Wall traded field .goals and Wendel scored again Dick Gage and Kable hit buckets and Wall returned with a field goal and a free throw. Two-pointers by Kahle and Bill Gillig brought the first period to a close, the Commodores holding a 20-9 lead. Topping the night's individual records was Joyce Smitley, who netted 14 points for the losers. Wall hit 12 points on three field goals and six of seven charity throws! Decatur scoring honors were well divided. Kable and Meyer each accounted for a dozen points, and Dick Gage and the Gilligs each scored eight. Coach Dave Terveer's o.p ratives, who had been taking it on the chin almost all season, will be idle for a week before they take on Fort Wayne C. C. here February 9. The Warriors will travel to Bryant on Friday night. Commodores FG FT TP Kable f —. 5 2 12 Gage f 3 2 8 B. Gillig c - 2 4 8 D. Gillig g 4 0 8 Meyer g 5 2 12 Hackman-f 0 11 Loshe f - rt 0 0 Peterson g 3 17 TOTALS 22 12 56 Jefferson FG FT TP Wall f 3 6 12; G. Miller « 0 11 Tumbleson c 10 2 Smitley g 6 2 14 Wendel g 2 3 7

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Week's Schedule Os Adams County Basketball Teams Friday Kendallville at Yellow Jackets. Kirkland at Pleasant Mills.' Monroe vs Monmouth at Berne. Berne at Winchester. Pennville at Geneva. Hartford at Petroleum. Jefferson at Bryant. Wellman f 2 15 Kuhn f 0 11 H. Miller g 1 0 2 TOTALS 15 14 44 Referee: — Buckingham. Umpire:— Byerly. Preliminary Jeferson 25, Commodores 24. Chicago Business Men Head Rockets Chicago, Feb. 2—(UP)— Ray “Red" Flaherty, coach of the new Chicago Hornets, said today that he was "well satisfied" with his squad, and assured All America Conference opponents that his gridders will go all out to raise the fortunes of the Chicago AAC entry. “I looked over the possible material for five days, before 1 took the job," Flaherty said. "The club had to guarantee me some more players before I agreed to be the coach. “I would say that the team we have is at least equal to the men we had in New York when we won the divisional championship.” 1 Flaherty formerly coached the New York Yankees. Three Chicago businessmen, headed by banker-realtor James C. Thompson, revealed yesterday that they are the new owners of the old Chicago Rockets, perennial AAC cellar dwellers. Flaherty, known as a strict taskmaster and an enthusiast for rugged conditioning of his players, said he wOuld use a single wing formation for the Hornets. He said that the club would be the “best conditioned" eleven in the conference. The Hornet squad now includes 57 players, Flaherty said. Good trading prospects appeared likely, since the roster must be cut to 35 men before the season opens, he said. It also was learned yesterday that the Hornets will receive Bob Chappuis, Bob Hoernschemeyer, Hank Foldberg. Dan Edwards, and Max Morris from the defunct Brooklyn club, and Bob Sweiger from the New York Yankees. The roster listed 30 holdovers from the 1948 Rockets.

Pro Basketball BAA Indianapolis 83, Washington 69. Rochester 76. Boston 68. Philadelphia 93, Providence 86. College Basketball Indiana Central 71, Canterbury 53. Huntington 58, Tri-State 46. DePaul 82, St. Joseph’s 46. Kalamazoo 48, Detroit 42. H. S. Basketball Columbia City 63, Milford 54. Terre Haute Gerstmeyer 57, Clinton 44. Frankfort 49, Logansport 28. Evansville Central 40, Evansville Reitz 36. Washington 40. Bedford 35. Gary Mann 44, East Chicago Roosevelt 43. Gary Roosevelt 53. Gary Wirt 31. Tell City 55, Huntingburg 47. Martinsville 40, Crawfordsville 36. Greensburg 32. Franklin 30. Terre Haute Wiley 43, Linton 28. RAILROADS AND <C<mt. From Page One) “there is no change in wages and hours." “It was our own idea to reconvene the board," Loomis said. We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let ua now commit 1* to life. — Markham.

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Three NEIC Games Carded This Week Three Northeastern Indiana conference games are scheduled this week as the Auburn Red Devils are still on top as the only team undefeated in loop play. Auburn has won five games and is the heavy favorite to win the crown, with only Columbia City and Bluffton barring the path to the title won last year by the New Haven Bulldogs. The Decatur Yellow Jackets wi 1 wind up their NEIC ‘schedule Friday night, meeting the Kendallville Comets here. The Comets are in second place with four wins and one loss, while the Jackets have broken even in six engagements. Garrett has finished its schedule with five victories and two defeats. Other games Friday night are Columbia City at Auburn and Bluffton at Warsaw. Standings W L Pct. Auburn 5 0 1.000 Kendallville 4 1 .800 Garrett 5 2 .714 Decatur 3 3 .500 New Haven 3 3 .500 Columbia City .... 1 4 .200 Bluffton 1 4 .200 Warsaw 0 5 .000 Clark, of Garrett, apparently has the conference scoring title sewed up with 102 points in his seven games, an average of 14.6 points per game. Stalf, Columbia City, and McGiffen. Kendallville, only ones with a chance to pass Clark, would have to come up with a pair of hot shooting nights to win the crown. The 10 leading scorers, with games played, total points, and average per game, are: Clark. Garrett, 7. 102, 14.6; Poer, Garrett. 7, 90, 12.8; Stalf, Columbia Citv, 5, 66. 13.2;’DeWitt, Garrett, 7, 63. 9; McGiffen. Kendallville, 5, 62. 12.4; Ellenherger, New Haven, 6, 55. 9.3; Skiles, Kendallville. 5, 53. 10.6; Wertenberger, Auburn. 5. 52. 10.4; Thomas. Decatur. 6, 48, 8; Weinman. New Have, 6, 46, 7.6. • Former Coach Sues Chicago Rockets Chicago, Feb. 2 — (UP) — Dick Hanley, former coach of the Chiago Rockets, said today that he has sued the Chicago Ail-AmerkaFoot-ball Club Inc., for <38,750 in. back pay Hanley.*who coached the Rockets in 1946 when the team was owned by Chicago trucking magnate John L. Keeehin. said in his superior court suit that he signed a threeyear contract at 315.000 a year, plus 10 percent of the club's earnings. He charged that he signed the contract In April. 1945. but was dismissed in September of the same year without receiving bis September salary or pay for the period he had left to serve. The suit charged that he was "wrongfully and without just cause dir < harged.” Trade In a Gocd Town — Cecatur

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Examinations Listed Under Civil Service Examinations for public health nurse and for physiologist were announced today by the U. S. civil service commission. The posts carry salaries ranging from <8,727 to <10,305 per year. Full information and application blanks may be secured .from Robert Frisinger, in the Decatur post office. Two Men Killed In Brewery Explosion Third Badly Injured In Mishawaka Blast Mishawaka, Ind., Feb. 2 — (UP) — A brewery worker was in a critical condition in St. Joseph’s hospital today as a result of an explosion which killed two other men. Officials of the Kamm and Schellinger .brewery said that thfe worker, Marvin Hemminger, 25, Niles, Mich., was blown out of a third floor fermentation room and landed on his feet. They said he ran to report the accident and then collapsed from shock. The dead were John Guendling, 75, and Frank Bleabrouck, 35. both of Mishawaka. Both died at St. Joseph's hospital following the explosion. The three men were coating a vat in the fermentation room and putting it back into servko when the blast occurred. The concussion knocked out a wall and sent the ceiling crashing down on them. Firemen blamed "accumulated ?as ignited by an electric spark ’rom an extension cable the men were using" for the blast. They said he room and most of its contents were destroyed. Damage from the explosion was estimated at >IO,OOO. HOUSE PASSES (Cont. From Page One) abandon schools with 20 or fewer pupils and give them permission to abandon schools with 25 pupils or less.' (Stevens-Blunt.) Other new house bills would: 1. Permit employes of state and local governmental units to organize to bargain collectively. (Bailey). 2. Prohibit school authorities from discriminating against teachers because of their marital status and allowing teachers to become candidates for public office without hindrance from school officials. (Hunter). 3. Exempt from the location limitations under the liquor law :hos» veterans’ clubs which have occupied the same premises three years or more. NO STALIN BID (Cont. From Page One) the chief executive would not attend a “big two” conference behind the iron curtain unless an extreme emergency prevailed. Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. — Solomon.

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Decatur Loses To Hartford In Overtime Tilt The Hartford Gorillas, 1948 sectional champions, further enhanced their great season record Tuesday night, defeating the Decatur Yellow Jackets in a spine-tingling, rough and tumble overtime battle at the Decatur gym, 35-33. The victory was Hartford’s 15* h of the season as against only one defeat, and brought the Jackets' record to nine triumphs and six losses. The Gorillas, after trailing throughout most of the first three periods, zoomed into a five-point lead at 33-28 with about a minute of playing time remaining At this point, Coach Bob Worthman inserted an entire reserve lineup. Dick McConnell converted a free throw, and seconds later dumped in a field goal to cut Hartford's lead to two points. The Jacket subs again gained pos-essiou ot the ball. A shot missed but Don Mac Lean grabbed the i ebound and dropped the leather through the hoop to tie the score at 33-33 just before the gun ended the regular playing time. Neither team could hit from the field in the three-minute overtime session, with the only points Bob Augsburger’s two free throws when fouled in the act ot shooting. The Jackets had several shots in the closing minute of the extra period but none of them would stick. Hartford held a 7-6 lead after i nip and tuck first quarter, but the Yellow Jackets moved into a 17-12 advantage at the half-time intermission. Decatur was still on top by four points, 25-21, at the end of the third period, but the Gorillas picked up 12 points while holding the Jackets to three before the reserves took over and knotted the count. Jerry Dubach, Hartford veteran, paced the winners' attack with 16 points before he was ejected from (he game late in the final period. Nell Thomas was Decatur's leading scorer with 11 points. Both teams scored 13 times from the field, with Hartford’s margin coming at the free throw line. The Gorillas converted nine tree throws in 22 chances at the foul stripe, while the Jackets, having only eight chances, made seven of them good. Twenty personal fouls were called on Decatur, with seven personals and one technical on Hartford. The Yellow Jackets will play the Kendallville Comets at the Decatur gym Friday night, while Hartford meets the Petroleum Panthers at Bluffton, also on Friday. Hartford , FG FT TP Monee, f 113 Dubach, f 6 4 16 D. Noll, c 2 0 4 Augsburger, g 13 5 K, Noll, g 3 1 7 Weikel, f 0 0 0 TOTALS 13 9 35 Yellow Jackets Freeby, f 0 0 0 Bohnke, f 3 0 6 Thomas, c 5 1 11 Grant, g 2 2 6 Bogner, g 1 3 5 Bair, f 0 0 0 Liby, f 0 0 0 Mac Lean, c 10 2 McConnell, g 113 Ogg. g 0 0 0 TOTALS - 13 7 33 Referee: Miller. Umpire: Davidson. Preliminary Decatur 31, Hartford 20. The state ot Colorado leads all others of the Union hi sugar beet production. Its minerals are valuable. It agricultural production includes canaloiHMs, wheat, corn, barley, alfalfa and potatoes, its mining interests are large. The altar of sacrifice is the' touchstone of character. — Clifford.

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American Newsmen To Scandinavia Four Weeks Tour Os Recovery Programs Washington, Feb. 2 — (UP) — Twelve American newspaper re- :• porters and editors will leave New York Friday to take a look at the • recovery programs in Denmark, i Norway and Sweden, the economic • cooperation administration an--5 nounced today. The Americans will make a four 1 weeks tour of the three ScandinaJ vian countries as guests of those governments. They will be accomi panied by official Danish, Norwegian and Swedish press representa- ’ tives. ! The schedule calls for noon de--1 parture on Friday aboard a Scan- ' dinavian airlines plane and arrival 1 at Copenhagen the next day. A 1 week’s visit in Denmark will include inspections of industrial 1 plants in Zealand and Jutland and farm and dairy installations else- . where in the country. ; There will be conferences with ! Danish officials and with Charles A. Marshall, ECA mission chief to ' Denmark. The party is scheduled to arrive in Malmo, Sweden, on the evening of Feb. 12. The ECA mission to Sweden is headed -by Col. John Haskell. The visitors will confer with him and with Swedish newspaper' men and officials in Stockholm and will visit Swedish factories and shipyards. On Feb. 20. the party will leave 'for Oslo, Norway, arriving the following day. In Oslo the group will have conferences with EGA’s Norway mission, headed by A. E. Staley. During the following week it will visit operations being aided by Marshall plan funds, such as fishing industries and public works and 'building programs. On Tuesday, March 1, the party will leave Oslo for the United States, arriving by Scandinavian airlines in New York on March 2. Making the trip will be Telix Belair, New York Times; Fred W. Colvig, Denver Post; George E. Durno, International News Service; Laurence C. 'Boklund, Milwaukee Journal; Harold Fleming, Christian Science Monitor; William H. Harrison, Washington Evening Star; Jahnar Johnson, Portland Oregonian; Oscar E. Naumann, New York Journal of Commerce; Everett Norlander, Chicago Daily News; John O’Donnell, New York Daily News; George L. Petersen, Minneapolis Star, and Fitzhugh Turner, New York Herald Tribune. American Is Killed Near Mexican City Mexico City, Feb. 2 — (UP) — The body of Robert L. Proctor. 23, Tucson, Ariz., who fled an attack on a Mexican-U. S. foot-and-mouth commission vaccination team at Temascaltzingo Monday, has been found near the town, it was announced today. Proctor had been attacked and killed, a commission announce ment said. ARRESf~YOUNG (Co«it. From Page One) authorities to hold Mrs~Joan Brokus in connection with the abduction of little Bonita Payer from a Pittsburgh ropming house almost a year ago. O'Connor said Bonita was kidnaped last March by a woman who represented herself as an evangelist Church of the Living God and accepted a job as the child’s “sitter.”

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Magazine Article On Ben Gerke Herd [ The value of good .pasture ■ dairy farming is stressed in afrJ page article on the prize-winJ farm management of Hen GeM of Decatur route 5. in this mJ Indiana Farmers Guide. The magazine devoted its nJ 1500 word story to the su. esJ Mr. Gerke's herd, which arenJ more than 400 pounds of butteJ for the last five years AnotJ Adams county farmer. Edwin N.J baum, is cited in an article cn in ficially bred quadruplet calves. NEW LABOR (Cont. From Page Onei the government has got so te i threaten congress with a sate) vient role. Air power — The house arw services committee voted, sobjed to a possible change of mind, I Iwlster a proposed 70-combat air force with 35 groups from 4 air national guard. Veterans —AMVETS asked M igress to give veterans 65 or o!di 3100 a month pensions — but oti until the social security act i broadened to cover all workers Trade In a Good Town — Dec#

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