Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 29, Decatur, Adams County, 4 February 1949 — Page 7

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I moose league Standings W L oo8f) ~ 9 0 loose o — jj 3 ark® —- “ 4 H End 5 4 games: McConnell 200. MilB Ladd 214, Myers 218, A,pLX 201, Petrie 209, Zelt 205, 210, Mies 209. August 98. I WOMEN’S LEAGUE Standings W L 111-Smith 3 Bji ?o >’ a 9 3 ieß 8 4 e iit - 3 4 mt Mudd 8 4 - 8 4 iss ■ ’ 0 tdt 5 6 B o therm 6 Service .... ---- 6 6 B" 1 - — (•Mil mi -- — "> ■ unba' -- -- -- • 4 ecati r Ind ---- 4 8 ■—- ■ 3 PW — - 2 1" ■ ... 10 W ries: Way 541, Odle 517. jljjli games: Way 223 177. Bias? ..Xis. Mac Lean 196. Odle 18075, towman 179-172, Halberstadt 77,1. Hoekmeyer 176, Schafer 17675.1 I > W- 1 4: •- > ■■ S ■i m 4 j B B H MS Bi •’ -w H _| Aam P. O'BRIEN, New York's nJ deputy police commissioner, nw succeed Arthur Wallander Mtommissioncr. Wallander reI Micd to become assistant to the I president of a large utilities I company. (International)

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Deep Snow Covers Northern Indiana Driving Conditions Reported Hazardous By United Press State police reported today that a deep snow covered the extreme north portion of Indiana, measure up to seven inches. The report was included in a road report indicating bad driving conditions from Lafayette north. At the same time, the weather bureau forecast a steep drop in temperatures tonight reaching zero upstate by tomorrow morning. The police road report said: Dunes Park district—Five to seven inches of snow in north half, three to four inches in south half. All roads covered with packed snow, main roads north are icy. Ligonier—Roads north of U. S. 24 covered with- packed snow, south covered with slush and wet. Lafayette—Coating of ice on all roads, beginning to break up. Balance of state —All roads wet but otherwise normal. The weather bureau forecast said temperatures would fall to zero to five above in the north and five to 10 above in the south, ending two days of moderate readings. ■

UNEMPLOYMENT (Cont. j' rom Page One) was forced to the wall. Vanfilder said Colorado, Nebraska and Kansas ranchers filed claims totaling $375,000, almost equaling the $377,000 in assets the company had at the start of the winter. All policies were cancelled as of .lan. 30. Ranchers believed th' total of dead livestock by spring would be tremendous. One bulldozer crew in South Dakota told of finding 3.200 head of cattle dead in the snow. Only light snow was reported today in the Rocky Mountains. Temperatures were low over the plains, however. It was 22 below at Pembina, N. D., and IS below at Aberdeen. S. I). Relief agencies pressed the' fight to minimize storm losses and casualties. Ft Knox. Ky„ authorities alerted 100 soldiers, half of them weasel drivers, for duty in the west. The men awaited an issue of sp ciai arctic clothing before boarding planes for the di aster area. Army and navy planes flying out of Phoenix and Winslow, Ariz.. dropped more than 106 tons o." hay and 5 600 pounds of food to Indians and their flocks of sheen on th ■ vast Navajo reserva'ion in Arizona. Utah and Colo ratio.

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Robert Lyons Dies Suddenly Thursday 1 Colorful Hoosier Politician Is Dead Indianapolis. Feb. 4 — (UP) — Relatives prepared today to bring back to Indiana the body of Rob- ■ ert W. Lyons, whose death in > Washington removed one of the ■■ most colorful and mysterious po- : litical figures in Hoosier history. , Lyons. 53, a wealthy attorney and congressional lobbyist, was found dead in his hotel room in Washington yesterday, apparently 1 ■ the victim of a hea. attack. The body will leave Washington] tonight enrou'e to Richmond where funeral services will be, he'd at 2:30 p. m. Monday. Serv- • ■ ices will be held in Reid Memorial church, which Lyons' father serv- ] ed as a Presbyterian minister for ■ ] several years until his death in 1915. | Lyons was born in Blooming'on. spent part of his early life in ] I Richmond, ami maintained a home i in Indianapolis while, practicing law from an ornate suite in the, ' Washington financial distri. t.‘* For yeans he was a behind-the-scenes figure in Hoosier politics. I

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In 1944, Lyons was elected Indiana member of the Republican national committee. But he resigned nine days later after k storm of protest arose because he once was a top figure in the Ku Klux Klan. In 1948. rumor had it that Lyons ; was behind the campaign of U. S. Sen. William E. Jenner, R.. Ind.. ] for the GOP gubernatorial nominaj lion. Influential 'newspapers in j Indiana opposing Jenner carried a series of articles about Lyons’ plicate and political life. Jenner lost the nomination and th" man who defeated him, Hobart Creighton of Warsaw, eventually lost the elec.ion. Over the years, Lyons often was linked with Republican political moves. But there always was an element of myst ry. He came to Indianapolis occasionally, usually | unannounced, and his visits seldom fai'ed to start stories that Lyons was making a move to gain power in Hoosier polities. Fined For Failure To Obey Stop Sign Frink .1, Flahar.y, of Decatur route 1. was fined $1 and costs i:i justice of the pea -e court Thursday Tor failure to obey a stop i sign. He was arrested by city police at Thirteenth and Monroe S* s.

Positions Open In i Army Engineer Corps J The executive secretary of the | board of U. S. civil service examin- ] "rs, Milwaukee district of th ■ army • engineers’ corps, has announce the (acceptance of applications for fed [ cral positions as pile driver man. ] I carpenter (marine), fireman-mar- ! ] ine, oiler-marine, engineman. carpI [ enter (ship), pilot engineer (ten- ■ ] der), machinist and electrician. These positions pay entrance sal i aides ranging from $1.30 t i $2.5f, ]an hour, with additional compel! ■ | sation for ti ne in excess es 4" ] hours per week. No written test • is required. InMl’mation and appliI j cation forms may be secured from II Robert Frisinger. in th? Decatur > I post office. GRAIN PRICES ((’out. l-'rom Page One) market short. He reportedly made : $106,000 to $200,000 with the same technique in other commodities. On the anniversary of his coup. Maynard was on a leisurely three ■ month vaea'ion and was unavailable for comment. But only thi week he bought a vacant corner i on Chicago's swank Michigan Ate., in the heart of the gold . coast shopping district.. He paid $500,000 for it.

PROPOSE (Cent. From Page One) I percent, another 15 percent would ] go into an administrative fund. ] i and the owner of property where ' the machines were set up would get to keep 20 percent. The only exceptions to the scale of income distribution were veterans organizations. They could keep 70 percent and pay 30 percent to the state. ’ I ] NATION SPANNED tCont. From Pag- One) , two decks witli a freedom usually ’ associated with an ocean liner. Cmdr. Williaim M. Collins, war veteran and first Constitution comimander, pulled the craft off the] Moffeet runway with an extra boost from six jato (rocket) units which furnished the ]>ower of a fifth engine. He rose quickly to cruising altitude and followed the transcontinental airway ever the snow-blank-1 I ed western disaster areas of Nev-' ada. Utah. Wyoming and Nebrask. ’ across the plains, south ot the Great Lakes and into Washing?National airport. The flight consumed 5.200 melons of gasoline.

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