Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 55, Decatur, Adams County, 6 March 1954 — Page 6

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Regional To Cut Field To Sweet Sixteen INDIANAPOLIS. VP — At least five new regional champions will be crowned tonight when the race for the 44th annual Indiana high school basketball crown will be trimmed to the "Sweet 16." New' second-round winners — although not necessarily "brandnew" ones—will emerge from Fort Wayne. Hammond, Lafayette, Muncie, and Shelbyville. Their regional champions bit the dust in last week’s sectionals. Five other defending regional champions and Fort Wayne North were favored to advance to the third round, but outcome at the five other sessions was a toss-up. Also favored were Jeffersonville, Evansville Central, Terre Haute Gerstmeyer’s 1953 state run-neds-up at Martinsville. Indianapolis Crispus Attueks, and Logansport. Unbeaten Mississinewa probably had the best chance among the 24 sectional champions to win a regional for the first time. The Marion sectional champs didn’t have it easy, though. They collided with regionalist Hartford City, which ousted them in overtime last time, in the first afternoon game at Marion. . Fillmore at Greencastle was the only other perfect-record crew, and both unbeatens own 24-game winning streaks. Mentone, which tangled With tough Elkhart at South Bend, was next with a 25-1 mark, while Gerstmeyer led the perennial powers with a 27-2 record. Brazil, Gerstmeyer's afternoon rival, brought up the rear with a 10-13 record. South Bend Central’s defending state champions and little Milan, the only other 1953 finalists still alive, had about 50-50 chances to reach next weke's semi - finals. The South Benders opened against Lapaz, and figured to run into Elkhart at night. The latter may not be at full strength because star Ray Ball, who averaged nearly 18 points per game during the season, was handicapped with a recurring back injury. Milan was favored against Rushville’s hosts, but could expect trouble from the Aurora-Conners-thlle winner at night. Michigan City, a member of Hammond's tough regional foursome, also was weakened, with starter Dick Cook, their fro. 3 shooter, out with the mumps. Elsewhere, defenders Attica at Greencastle, Kokomo, and Washington at Huntingburg also were expected to be pressed to the limit. IHSAA commissioner L. V. Phillips said 12 of the 16 centers reported sell - outs. Ipdianapolis, Fort Wayne and Lafayette tourney sponsors had plenty of tickets left. He said Huntingburg may sell out before the afternoon session starts. Washington 4-H'ers Meet Monday Night All boys and girts in Washington township who are interested in 4-H are asked to meet at the Monroe grade school Monday, at 7 p.m.

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Big Leagues Open Spring Schedules By UNITED PRESS "«-<• The National league champion Brooklyn Dodgers *ere pronounced “in fine shape’’ but the world champion New York Yankees reeled under the impact of two more severe blows today as the 16 big league teams opened their Grapefruit league schedules. “I don’t think this team is going to rest on its 1953 laurels," Manager Walt Alston said of the Dodgers. ’ I’m impressed with the way they’ve buckled down to hard work and as a new manager 1 deeply appreciate it.” .Manager Casey Stengel, meanwhile, tried hard but ineffectively to hide his concern over the twin revelations that centerfielder key Mantle might not be available until May 1 and that Ewell Blackwell had decided to retire. The blows were especially bitter to Stengel coming so close on the heels of the sale of Vic Raschi and Billy Martin's loss to the army. The Dodgers journeyed to Miami, Fla., today to open their spring exhibition schedule against the team which supplied them with the greatest challenge in 1953. Strengthened by the addition of infielder Danny O'Connell and slugger Bobby Thomson, the Milwuakee Braves insist that they will make an even stronger bld for the pennant this year. The Braves carried the fight to the Dodgers through most of last season but eventually finished nine games behind the leaders. The Yankees opened their spring campaign against the St. Louis Cardinals in one of the Grapefruit league’s oldest rivalries. In the past such an occasion called for a festive atmosphere by . the St. Petersburg, Fla., rivals but the Yankees were in no mood for ; that today. , In the other Grapefruit openers, the Chicago Cubs opposed the i Baltimore Orioles at Mesa. Ariz., the Cincinnati Redlegs played the . Chicago White Sox at Tampa, Fla., > the New York Giants met the ■ Cleveland Indians at Tucson, Ariz.„ i the Philadelphia Phillies engaged • the Detroit Tigers at Clearwater, ■ Fla., and the Pittsburgh Pirates , played the Red Sox at Sarasota, Fla. ’ ,;,e ’ ■ Cut Out Part Os Jane Russell Dance r LONDON, (UP)—Part of Jane Rusnell’s torrid dance in the conI troversial film. "The French Line.” will not be shown on British screens, it was announced today. i The British board of film censors said it was following the lead taken by some theater owners in the United States and cutting out , the section which was found objectionable. Cardinal Massimi Dies This Morning VATICAN CITY (UP) — Massi-i mo Cardinal Massimi, prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, died today of a heart attack at his home. Massimi’s death reduced the Sacred College of Cardinals from the full strength of 70 to which Pope Pius XII had raised it in the consistory of January, 1942. The Cardinal had been ill several years. Willkie Will Not Run For Congress RUSHVILLE, Ind., UP — Rep. Philip H. Willkie (R-RushVille) said Friday he had no intention of running for congress but refused to indicate whether he would be a candidate for Rush county circuit judge. Willkie announced several weeks ago he wuold not seek reelection to the Indiana legislature. It was rumored he would either file for the GOP nomination for the 10th district congressional seat now held by <Rep. Ralph Harvey, or enter the judicial,.primary contest against Judge William F. i Marshall. . i Indiana Farm Index . Drops Only One Point ' LAFAYETTE, Ind., UP — The . Indiana farm products price indeg dropped only one point between ' January s and February and was six percent higher last month than a year earlier. Purdue University and federal 1 agricultural statisticians reported • the index In February was 279, 1 compared with 280 in January. Prices of most farm products 1 changed very little. Exceptions ! were apples, up 14 percent; wheat J and soybeans, up five percent; i calves, down eight percent, and milk, down five percent. Democrat Want Ads Bring Results

‘ County Junior High Champions IS?" Xv ' .a B • * u g a. k B '.I- 'i C. 7,2 ' JLj J* X if**! : ■ Pictured above is the St. Joe eighth grade team of Decatur, which won the Adams county junior high school championship Thursday, defeating Berne in the tourney finals. St. Joe also won the championship of the Fort Wayne CYO grade league, and will in the diocesan tourney at Gary Sunday. First row, left to right—Don Gase. Tom Meyer, Dave Kitson. Steve Sutton, student manager. Second row. left to right—Glenn Miller, Keith Bricker. Joe Kohne, Mike Ellenberger, Roy Litchfield. Third row, left to right—Dave Terveer, coach; Dan Costello, Phil Reed, Dave Kable, Dave Hake, Bill Beal, the Rev. Robert Contant. athletic director.

Billion In Aid To Indochina Forces Announcement Made By Harold Stassen 'WASHINGTON, UP —The United States plans to throw more than one billion dollars in aid behind French and native forces battling Communist rebels in Indochina. foreign aid chief Harold E. Stassen said Friday. Stassen, just back from a tour of Indochina and the Far East, said the U. S. military aid program in Indochina is based on the expectation of a military victory over the Reds within two years. He told reporters after a visit to the White House that he holds a “strong conviction that the forces of freedom in the Far East are growing stronger and that the Communist position is weaken- ; ing.” Stassen said this applied to I both the military and economic picture. » He said later in a radio interview' (CBS’ Capitol Cloakdoom”) that the French and their Indochinese allies are “on the way to victory” in their long struggle with Communists. A foreign operations administration spokesman said the aid to Indochina this year will include both military and economic help. He said 785, million dollars will be economic aid to support the Indochinese fighting; 25 million dollars will be economic and technical aid to Indochina, and between 250 and 35ff million dollars will be direct military aid. Stassen said that contrary to some information flowing from the ■ Far East, he found Red forces in Indochina weaker than they were a year ago. He cited what he termed Communist retreats, failure to fight and the “general attitude” of the native Red army. McCarthy (Continued From Page One) congress. Sen. Richard B. Russell, Georgia Democrat, and Sen. Lyndon Johnson, of Texas, senate Democratic leader, who will speak on the same program, with Stevenson, predipted the Republicans will not be able to make any campaign headway on 4he issue of Communism in government. Stevenson told newsmen he felt sure the army has not coddled the Communists deliberately any more than the previous administration coddled any subversives, traitors or spies deliberately. McCarthy who is visiting here told reporters he did not know of the rally and was surprised to find himself surrounded by Democrats when he flew here on business. “I certainly did not come down for that,” McCarthy said when he arrived Friday night on a plane. Stevenson said he also would discuss in his address what he called the difference between the Republican administration and the Republican party, and the handling of foreign affairs by secretary of state John Foster Dulles. Stevenson "declined to, express his view of the prospect of ending the present “recession” before the elections next fall, saying “I’m just a simple politician. I don't know.” * Asked if he is considering running for president again in 1956, Stevenson quipped that “at the moment I'm more interested in 'Tlinwlnff fztr hAan'h ** _ . .... If you have something to sell dr rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad. It brings results.

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Sunday Afternoon Game For Komets FORT WAYNE, Ind.. — The first Sunday hockey game ever to be played in Fort Wayne is scheduled for the Memorial Coliseum ice here Sunday afternoon when the Fort Wayne Komets meets . the Toledo Mercurys. £ One of the largest crowds of the . season is expected to see the game , which is scheduled to start at 2; 30 . p.m. c.s.t. Two games remain on me Hornet schedule after Sunday's enr counter with, Toledo. On Wednes- , day night the Komets meet Mil- - waukee here and on Friday night • they close their season against the r Troy Bruins here in what may be the game that will decide whether t Fort Wayne reaches the" playoffs. } - . : Four Puerto Ricans : Plead Nol Guilty Four Are Assured ’ Os Fair U. S. Trial ’ WASHINGTON U.P — Four Puerto Ricans who poured a barrage of bullets into the house of rep- ( resentatives Monday were assur- ( ed today of a fair trial from the government they hate. > Federal Judge James W. Morris . told the four at their araignment . Friday he was “determined to see - that they have a fair trial and i that their rights are protected” > when they go trial here April 5. The four pleaded innocent to 10 > assault charges placed against ! them as a result of the fantastic i shooting which..cut down five coh- > gressmen. t” ’ Morris outlined through a Spanish interpreter the rights the fanatical nationalists are guaranteed under the American system of justice. He appointed four well-known Washington attorneys to defend them. Mrs. Lolita Lebron, petite, 34-year-old ringleader of the band, was the first to enter her plea of innocent. She said "I would like It" to"be charged that what I committed was the defense of my country.” She told Morris in a barely audible voice that a de- ‘ sense attorney was on his waV here from New York. Rafael Cancel Miranda, 25. also pleaded innocent because “I did what I did in defense of my country.” The other two defendants — Andres Rigueroa Codero, 29. and Irving Flores 'Rodrfguez, 28 ~— mumbled their innocent pleas. BOWLING SCORES Women’s League W L Pts. Riverview 18 5 26 Bank ’ la 6 24 Duo Therm 16V4 7% 23% Hoagland Mm/ , 17% 22% Three Kings ..' 16 8 22 Columbia Farms .. 14 10 r 19% Golf Club 13 11 18 Engle & Irwin 13 11 17 Adams Co Trail .. 13% 10% 16% •Kents : 13 11 16 Wire Die 10 14 12% Rosies 10% 13% 12% Jack's Shell Ser .. 8% 15% 11% Adams Theater .... 8 16 11 Old Crown i 9 1,5 11 Schafers 7% 16% 9% Gays Mobil Ser .. 7 17 9 M&W Auto Sale .. 6 IS , 8 High series: A. Hoile 524 (237.) High games.’ A. Rbynold3l92, E. L. Kukelhan 174, Woodward ’IBB, J. Smith 179. IMacLean 182, Bowman 177, Way 170,Alman 172, McClure 170.

McCarthy Assailed By Senator Lehman Says Republicans Afraid Os McCarthy NEW YORK, UP —Sen. Herbert H. Lehman charged today that no one in the Eisenhower adminis"seems to be courageous enough to reckon with” Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy. The New York Democrat also accused McCarthy and other “irrationals and anti-intellectuals" of trying to control the nation's schools by intimidating teachers. -Ito a speech prepared for the New York Teachers Guild, Lehman said “the present awkward maneuvering by the administration, the current show of limited opposition Co Sen. McCarthy is much more a guarded contest for power within the Republican party than an all-out struggle for principle.” The New York Democrat, a longtime foe of McCarthy and one of the few senators who has openly clashed with him, bitterly assailed leading congressional Red hunters. He denounced chairman William E. Jenner (R-Ind.) of the senate internal security subcommittee and chairman Harold H. Velde' (R--lir.) of the house un-American activities committee as “inquisitors” and “false anti - Communists.” , v The New York senator called on President Eisenhower to “set principle above party and take strong leadership of the forces seeking to resist the fearful assault upon our liberties and our standards of political decency.” The President, Lehman said, gave McCarthy only a "mild, implied rebuke” Wednesday when he criticized "disregard of standards of fair play’” in congressional investigations. Mr. Eisenhower “raised no banners with which freedom-loving men and women could” rally,” Lehman said. Wrestling Program On Monday Night FORT WAYNE, Ind.. — Hans Schmidt, recently described in a Look magazine article as the meanest wrestler in the ring, will appear at the Coliseum in Fort Wayne Monday night, meeting Mighty Atlas in the main event of a star-studded mat show, first in Fort Wayne in more than three months. There will be four matches. involving top TV talent. Farmer Jones is booked against Tarzan Zimba in the semi-final. The two prelims match Tor Yamato and Jim Lewis aijd Charlie Carr and Aztec Garcia. The show will start at 8 p.m. c.s.t . The birth of Virginia Dare, first white child born in what is now the United States was commemorated in 1937, on the 350th anniversary. El* . . **

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DeMarco Is New King Os Lightweights NEW YORKS UP — Paddy DeMarco, who became the first Brooklyn-born lightweight champion on a thundering upset, said today "l‘U out-speed him again" when be meets ex-champ Jimmy Carter in a return title bout this summer. “it was my speed that beat him,” said the flat-nosed, bullnecked champ who went into the ring a 4-1 underdog Friday night before 5,730 in Madison, Square Garden and came out with a unanimous 15-round decision and the title. No victory of previous lightweight greats like Joe Gans, Benny Leonard. Tony Canzonerl or Barney Ross was ever greeted With more abandoned enthusiasm than (he astounding triumph in which the "Billygoat” gashed and defeated his expected butcher. Each weighed 135 pounds, exactly the lightweight limit. Hints of moisture appeared in Paddy's eyes today when he' said, “I dreamed for nine long years of winning the title. And I’m only sorry my manager Jitnmy Dixon wasn’t alive to see it. But he was with me all through the fight. And I was winning for him.” Dixon died last year, but Paddy will give the manager’s 33% of his purse to Dixon’s widow. His purse from the $23,727 gate and $30,000 radio-television money approximated $9,750. Carter got the lion’s share —about $19,490. A return-bout contract calls for 26-year old Paddy to defend against the 30-year old New York Negro within 90 days: but a nine- . stitch gash in Carter’s left brow ’ may delay the meeting. Jimmy suf--1 sered the brow-cut in the sixth ( round. « His surprise performance, in which he out-boxed and out-fought , the highly regarded Carter, won the rounds votes of the three ring f officials as follows: Referee Ruby . Goldstein, 7-5-3; Judge Harold Barnes, 9-6, and Judge -Artie Afd- , ala, 9-5-1. The United Press fa- . vored him 8-6-1. [ The defeat was a double disap- . pointment to Carter, who said, “1 [ thought I won with my strong tins ish.” He lost not only his own • title for the second time but also . eliminated himself as a possible r contender for the welterweight crown. - Pro Football ' Fort Wayne 76, Philadelphia 70. 1 New York 70, Rochester 66. ■ Boston 128, Minneapolis 106. i ~ " i I College Football » Missouri 72, lowa State 67. Carleton 63, Lawrence 62. Rice 70, Texas 62. South Atlantic Tourney j Wake Forest 64, Maryland 56. North Carolina State 79, Duke 75. Southern Conference j George Washington S 3, West Virginia 74. ; Richmond 85, Furman 81. PUERTO RICO (Continued From Paae One) i Garriga, Dist. Atty. Jose C. Aponte ■ and Victor Gutierrez Franqui, ma- ’ Jority leader of the insular senate i —gathered at the police station i today as raiding squads set out to round up the Nationalists. Rolg said the captured Nationalists would be held in $25,000 bail each pending court action. Insular authorities said they will request recovation of the pardon i that freed Albizu from prison last t September. The other 37 National- > ists will be charged with violation I of a Puerto Rican anti-subversive . law.- ■——- -- --- ; Albizu is president of the party ’ that staged an abortive revolt here t in October, 1950, tried to assassinate President Truman early in November of that year, and injured five members of the U. S. house of representatives in a feei rorist attack Monday. The party president was sentence to prison for 81 years for his own part in the 1951 revolt, but was pardoned last year on the advice of psychiatrists after he told prison doctors he was being subjected to “atomic attack” from ■ buildings around the prison. Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

GARARD— OS W z Slight Decline In Jobless Pay Claims Unemployment Total Is Slightly Lower WASHINGTON, UP—TtodustHalist Paul G. Hoffman • believes President Eisenhower may have been expecting "too much too soon" in hoping employment would rise this month. Hoffman, board chairman of the Studebaker Corp., and a close friend of Mr. Elsenhower, said the auto Industry will not have any more employes at work at the end of March thun it did at the beginning. However,, me iaoor department Friday reported the number of persons claiming unemployment insurance dipped slightly in the third week of February to total 2.168.200. It was the second consecutive weekly decline in jobless claims after an almost uninterrupted rise that began In mld-Novembif. ’ The unemployment insurance program covers only 36 million of the nation’s 60 million workers but it is considered an important indicator of unemployment trends. In a speech before the Advertising Council Friday. Hoffman said the chief problem facing American business is the public's unwillingness to buy for fear of an economic downturn. But he said there is “no reason not to have a good year” generally. The Advertising Council is sponsoring a campaign to publicize the "positive” factors in U. S. economic life. Fillmore Closes Up Town For Regional GREENCASTLE, Ind. UP — Police and firemen from Greencastle will keep watch over nearby Fillmore today while the little town’s residents close up shop and troop to the regional basketball tourney here. Fillmore’s unbeaten high school Jiuintet was expected to draw a good share of the townspeople as rooters, and Greencastle Mayor Evan Crawley said the “good neighbor” protection of their property would help keep all minds on basketball. In order to re-oil locomotives and equipment in case of accidents, giant hydraulic jacks are employed on British railroads which operate faster than the conventional equipment without blocking adjacent tracks. Democrat Wan*. Ads Bring Results

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BANK BANDIT (Ca»tlnur< From .P—e Owe) ago. Cleveland said at least “three other berspns” were involved in the holdups. > “He started robbing banks because his business went bad and he was $6,000 in debt. Some of h)£ checks started coming back.” Cleveland said. “He’s a mahly sort of person.” "LaClair says he spent all his share of the loot,” sajd Leonard Blaylock, chief of the Indianapolis FBI office. “He said he was desperately in need of money for auto deals.” * “He was the main one in all the holdups," Blayloci said. "He’s admitted that. The others were on the fringe.” The fast-breaking arrests got their s:art when state police picked up Miller Thursday night In h Waynedale restaurant for public intoxication. He was found counting a packet of 52 ney one dollar bills. On questioning at the Allen county jail Miller told of the robberies and admitted, Cleveland said, driving the car in “some” of them. City police went after LaClair. and caught up with him at a Catholic church where he had gone Friday afternoon to pick up his children. He confessed immediately-

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