Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 October 1942 — Page 21
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Mlinois’ Back Gets Yardage
CHICAGO, Oct. 8 (U. P.).—Don Griffin of Illinois leads the nation’s backs in yards gained from rushing with 324 yards in two games, the American - football statistical bureau reported today. Jackie Field of Texas was second with 290 yards gained in three games, followed by Bill Daley, Minnesota, 277 in two games, and Raymond Evans, Texas Mines, 258, in two games. Paul Governalli of Columbia led in total offense with 454 yards in two games. He handled the ball 52 times, gained 411 yards from passing and 43 from rushing. Dick Fisher of Iowa cadets was second with 425 yards in three games, followed by Tom Farmer, Iowa, with 412 yards in three games; Prank Binkwich, Georgia, 380 in three a and Phil Cutchin, Ken376 in three games. Vandy Best on Offense Ray Evans, Kansas, led in pass completions with 31 dn 66 attempts for a: gain of 242 yards. Gover“nalli completed: 22 out of 28 and Sinkwich completed 22 out of 44. A Vanderbilt led the teams in total offense with an average of 476.5 yards per game in two games. -llinoils was second with 4714 yards, followed by Ohio State, attan, Tennessee, Missouri, Boston college, Texas, Columbia, Oregon State and Minnesota. - Arizona led in defense, allowing an average of 31.5 yards per game for two games. Vanderbilt was second in defensive rating, followed by Illinois, Army, Syracuse, Yale, North Carolina State, Manhattan Tulsa and Temple,
Fights Axis
Sdn CUNNINGHAM SR. 438 N. Davidson st., 1936 TimesLegior Golden Gloves champion, is stationed with the armed guard division at the U. S. navy recruiting station in Brooklyn, N.Y. Cunningham, a former me- - chanic at Allison's, enlisted April 27 and’ received his training at the Great Lakes naval station. ~ Heé won his first: two bouts in the 1936 Chicago tournament. * His wife, Ruby, and’ two ¢hil-
dren, George Jr., 3 years old, and |g
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Score, but Can’t Win
BLOOMINGTON, Oct. 8. — By scoring 74 points, Indiana’s football
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Petersen Picks Notre Dame; Yanks Were His Choice, Too
By LEO H. PETERSEN
United Press
Sports Editor
‘NEW YORK, Oct. 8.~Having picked the Yankees in six games, we give you now our football selections for this week: Army over Cornell—the boys from along the Hudson .are going somewhere: the guys from above the Cayuga aren't. : Colgate over Dartmouth—a close one that may determine the
Eastern champion. Fordham over North Carolina— the Rams start rolling in their first home game. Navy over Princeton—don't ask] . why. Penn. over Yale—not easy, but fairly safe. Boston college over Clemson—B. C. looks loaded for a good year. . Columbia over Brown-—-or didn't you care? Northwestern over Purdue—The Wildcats have one of the best clubs in the Midwest.
The Irish Get Going
Minnesota over Illinois— The Gophers start a new winning streak. Ohio State over Sothern California—But the margin won't be as big as last year—33 to 0. Towa Naval Cadets over Michigan —The Seahawks are on their way to recognition as the nation’s top club. Notre Dame over Stanford—The Irish get going in a battle of T formations, ; Great Lakes over Pittsburgh—The Panther’s don’t appear good enough to duplicate last week's upset of S. MU. Wisconsin over Missouri—On the theory that Harder and Hirsch will make the difference. Texas over Oklahoma—And easy. Texas Christian over Kansas— Still easier. Arkansas over Baylor-— Close enough to be a tie. Tulane over Rice—Rice’s reserve strength isn’t good enough. Auburn over Florida—On the basis of last week's victory over ‘Tulane.
Rose Bowl Champs Roll on
Vanderbilt over Kentucky—But if could go the other way. L. ‘8S. U. over Mississippi State-> Ditto. : : Georgia over Mississippi~—Sinkwich will do it. Oregon State’ over U. C. LA The Rose bowl champions. still are rolling. » Santa Clara over California—The Broncos passing attack should be too much for the slow moving Bears. Washington over Oregon—Anyboy’s ball game. And Denver over Colorado State; Colorado over - Utah State; Utah over Brigham Young; South Carolina over West Virginia; Duquesne
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Wants to Play Short Schedule
CHICAGO, Oct. 8 (U. P.).—The major leagues will meet war-time travel restrictions with fewer trips, longer series and possibly a shorter season, William Harridge, president of the American league said today. Although no definite decisions can be made before the major league meetings in December, Harridge said that he had found approval among the club executives favoring the reduction of trips around the circuit from four to three. Thus, he said, each team will visit the other cities in the league three times instead of four, playing four or five games at each stand instead of three as in recent years. This system would save an estimated 40,000 miles of travel, he said. . Harridge said @& majority of American league magnates favored the reduction of the season from 154 games to 140, but the National league preferred the longer schedule. Owners of the major league clubs are being polled by mail, he said. In the event of a stalemate between the leagues, K. M. Landis, baseball czar, would meet with league officials to effect ‘a settlement. The major league meeting is scheduled to be held in New York City’ but the site may be shifted to Chicago so minor league officials can ‘attend more easily. Harridge indicated that other drastic changes may develop before the December meeting.
Rambling Ram NEW YORK, Oct. 8.—After traveling to’ Lafayeite to engage Purdue and to Knoxville to tackle Tennessee, Fordham’s football team will play at home for the first time in a game with North Carolina at the Polo Grounds.
Leads Purdue
LAPAYETTE, Oct: 8 (U.P) ~— The Purdue Boilermakers spent |
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Hockey league this year, according to Jack Adams; Detroit Red Wings’ general manager and coach who is directing early training for both clubs in Detroit. Adams has given the Cape the “go” signal and has announced that
have a representative club this season.” Thirty players from last year’s
"| Detroit, Indianapolis and Omaha clubs and amateur teams are work-|
ing out daily for team positions.
Wing club have returned to relieve Adams from tapping - Indianapolis tdleat too strongly.
Two to Report
Doug McCaig, Ken Kilrea, Gus Giesébrecht and Roy Sawyer are
while Goalie Joe No! No! Turner of
U. S. army at Pt. Custer, Mich. Detroit players now in the army include Jerry Brown, Eddie Bush and Pat McReavy. - Connie Brown and Joe Fisher have not reported for training yet. Members of last years Cap squad working out are Les Douglas, Dick Behling, Hec Kilrea, Harold Jackson, Sandy Ross, Jack Keating, Bill
is expected to draw no more than two or three of this lot for his Red Wings. Douglas is the only “sure” member to get a boost into the National league. Indianapolis fans this year probably will cry their “No! No!” to Jimmy Franks, who opened with the Caps last season but finished with Omaha of the American association, now disbanded for the duration. The Caps and Red Wings are scheduled to play one exhibition game in Indianapolis, Oct. 21 before the regular American league season opens Nov. 1,
17 Sunday Nights
Dick Miller, the Coliseum’s general manager, has announced a 56game schedule for ‘the local hockey club; 28 games at home and 28 on the road. Seventeen of the home games will be played on Sunday nights and games are scheduled here for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Eve. The road schedule was arranged to eliminate as much traveling as possible, The Caps will open with an exhibition game Oct. 13 in Windsor, Ont., against the Cleveland Barons. They, also, will play Detroit, the parent club, in Detroit, Oct. 22 and 25. The first. home game is scheduled with Washington, an Eastern division member of the league.
~ Shore Moves to Buffalo
The league will be an eight-team affair this year. Springfield took over the Buffalo franchise when the U. S. army took Eddie Shore’s home rink for army purposes. Philadelphia withdrew from the league and Hershey, formerly a Western division member, was voted into the Eastern division. The teams will line ‘up with the Caps, Cleveland, Buffalo and Pittsburgh in the Western half and New Haven, Providence, Hershey and Washington in the eastern division. The coliseum skating rink was opened last night to the public. It will not be opened for afternoon skating until after Nov..1l. Members of Sonja Henie’s show have
the rink in the mornings and afternoons. Ticket booths will be in the same place this year, according to Miller, and doors on the south side of the coliseum will be open to fans who have purchased Nekets in advance. There are parking facilities for 1500 automobileS now that the army has
taken over most of We fairgrounds. 2
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Twelve regulars from last year’s Red |
members of the Canadian army] last year has been inducted into the
Jennings and Jud McAtee. Adams|:
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Entered in the. beauty show for babies are Machael Doades, 9-month-old son of Mr, and Mrs, Charles Doades, 721 N. Cleyeland st, and Mary Anne Powers, 2%4- -year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs, James Pow-
ers, 1809 E. Michigan st.
To encourage Mothers’ interest in: clinics, Chapter 11, Women of the Moose, is sponsoring a health clinic at the: Moose club, 135 N. Delaware st. Examinations began yesterday and will continue until all of the 850 babies, registered through Wasson’s | infants’ department, have been examined. The chil
HARRY ISRAEL IS DEAD AT 72
Ex-Head of D. So D. Sommers & Co. Had Resided Here Since 1907.
Harry W. Israel, former president of the old D. Sommers & Co. furniture store here, died today in his home, 3955 Washington blvd, He was 72. Mr. Israel had been in the furniture business all his life and had been merchandise man and buyer at Pearson Co., Inc.,, until the last several months. He had been in ill health since January, He was a member of the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation, the Masonic lodge in Chicago, the Columbia club, the Broadmoor country club and the Chamber of Commerce, Mr, Israel had lived here since 1907 and was born in Weaverly, Iowa. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Evelyn Smith Israel, and five sisters, Mrs. Louis Mayer, Mrs. Moses Mayer &nd Miss Hattie Israel, all of South Whitley, Ind.; Mrs. Maurice Half, Pittsburgh, and Mrs. Rose Freeman, Milwaukee, Wis. Funeral services, conducted by Rabbi Morris Feuerlicht, will be held at 10 a. m. Sunday in the Flanner & Buchanan mortuary. Burial will be in the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation cemetery,
HEADS EARLHAM »3$0ARD LAFAYETTE, Ind. Oct. 8 (U. P.). —Dr. Lawrence Hadley of the Purdue unive “Jy mathematics departmert was elected president of the board of trustees at Earlham college yesterday. He has been on the board
dren range in age from a few weeks to five and one-half years. The examinations are made by the Indiana Ostéopathic Assotion of Physicians and Surgeons. Each mother receives a report card containing a report and offering suggestions on the child’s
care.
Rites Tomorrow For Sarah Flack
' FUNERAL SERVICES for Murs. Sarah Moore Flack, 89, will be conducted tomorrow in Shirley Brothers West Side chapel at 2 o'clock. The Rev. Howard Anderson, pastor of the Speedway Christian church, will be in charge. Mrs. Flack died yesterday in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Caroline Dailey, 2186 W. 16th st, after a long illness. Mrs. Flack came to this country from Ireland with her parents when she was a child and made her home in Flackville for '70 years. She was married in 1873 to Mr. Flack, who died in 1919. Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. Dailey, Mrs. Rachel Richwine, Mrs. Phoebe Schlotz and Mrs. Mary Spafford; a son, Stoughton A. Flack, and five grandchildren, all of Indianapolis.
THOMAS J. GURTIS IS DEAD HERE AT 78
Thomas J. Curtis, a native of Washington county who came to Indianapolis 45 years ago, died yesterday in his home, 2107 Butler ave.,
Mr. Curtis had formerly operaied a transfer business here. Funeral services will be at "10 o'clock’ tomorrow morning in the Royster and Askin mortuary, 1902 N. Meridian st, with burial in Floral Park. The survivors include a son, Horace Curtis; a daughier, Mrs. Dorothy Wallace; a brother, Walter Curtis; six grandchildren and two great granddaughters, all of Indi-
for 15 years.
anapolis.
‘Sword Swallower' Faces Suit for Popping 'Fat Lady’
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Oct. 8 (U. P.) —Mrs. Charles Horrell, a circus “fat lady,” wants $3000 for the in- ‘| juries and indignities she suffered when a fellow performer slugged her with. a pop bottle. Mrs. Horrell, who weighs 500 pounds and appears as “Baby Betty” in’ the Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey circus, said in her suit that she was struck on the head so that that “all bones, muscle tissues, nerves and my cntire body were bruised, contused, lacerated and sprained.” Her suit was filed against * Mrs. Patricia Smith, the sword swallower, who allegedly wielded the bottle in a dressing tent argument. » The story was revealed at a hearing before Municipal Judge Ed-
HART CHARGES RAF FAILED TO AID SHIPS
. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 8 (U. P). Criticism of the royal air force for
all looked up to see which one of us she meant, this time. She was looking at my husband and me. My husband is no bum. He's a gentleman ticket~taker.” Patricia sald she was drinking a bottle of pop at the time and that Baby Betty had “reached for my throat with one hand.” “So I let her have it—very light, » she said. Then Baby Beifty's husband. ‘Charles (The Great Shackles) Horrell, hit her under the chin, Patricia _testified, and she fell over a trunk. 3 Baby Betty told her version. “You see, juige,” she said, “circus people are so sensitive. If you say anything, they always take it ‘that you're talking about them.” She said she had been “ganged” by the other performers and that she hadn't meant to imply that Patricia’s husband was a “bum.”
Chas. 1. Barnett, FAIRBANKS LOAN. £0.
203 E. Wash, st. or Dessware’
after a six weeks’ illness. He was 78. }
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A beauty show for the registrants will be held Oct. 14 and 15 and a popularity show later in the month.. Silver trophies will
be awarded winners in the various age groups and sections. Mrs. Lois Ogden is chairman of the show and Mrs. Louise Holliday, publicity director.
HENRY F. BROWN KILLED IN CRASH
Carpenter Fatally « Hurt When Auto Collides With Cattle Truck.
Henry PF. Brown, 240 N. Walcott st.,, was killed yesterday when the carn he was driving collided with a cattle truck on Highway 31 near Franklin. He was 50. Mr. Brown was a carpenter employed at Camp Atterbury was en route to the camp w the accident occured. Ernest L. Sutherlin, Indianapolis; driver of the truck was not injured. Mr. Brown who had lived in Indianapolis for 25 years, was a member of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners. Survivors are the wife, Mrs. May Brown; daughters, Mrs. Pearl Davis, of Decatur, Ill, and Mrs. Leona Mountjoy, Indianapolis; sons, Everett and Lewis Brown and two sisters, Mrs. Mary Crisup and Mrs. Tressie Taylor.
Alamo Can Claim Pacific Air Hero
ALAMO, IND. CAN claim the glory of having Donald E. Runyon as its native son. The Indianap-: olis Times carried his picture yesterday. Mr. Runyon, whose home town was not mentioned in dispatches from the Solomon islands, is credited with downing eight Jap planes within three weeks of action in the combat zone, He is the son of Harvey Runyon.
SMALLPOX DEATH RATE AT NEW LOW
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8. (U. P) — Only 14 persons died of smallpox in
the United States in 1940, setting |
the lowest death rate for the disease in history, the census’ bureau reported today. The bureau said the decline had been constant since 1924. Infantile paralysis victims totaled 1026, or 0.8 per 100,000 population. The highest death rate ever recorded was 10.5 per 100,000 in 1916.
Other causes of death listed by |Gladys
the bureau were: Angina pectoris and diseases of the coronary arteries—a total of 101,463 in 1940, a 12-fold increase since 1900. \
Mrs. Cerebrospinal meningitis—A total | bury
of 694, lowest rate since 1910.
Diseases of pregnancy and child-|beth Schmitt.
birth—A total of 8,876, or a rate of
HAPS
OVER SALARIES
Treasury Prepares Rules Byrnes Begins: Action on’ Stabilization. he
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (U. P=
{The treasury prepared today to oute {line regulations for the control
salaries over $25,000 as the war board confirmed that millions workers receiving salaries of le: than $5000 a year are exempted from the new stabilization order.
action yesterday as President Roose= velt named the six public members
partment to prevent increases ims the cost of livestock and poultry: by maintaining the loan rate on 1942 crops of corn and wheat at 83 per cent of parity. : Board Appointees
ments were: Labor—President William Green of the American Federation of Labor and President Philip Murs
Agriculture—President James a. Patton of the Farmers Co-opeéras tive Union and President Edward Ay O'Neal of the American Farm Bue: reau federation. Management—Pregident Eric A. Johnston of the United States Chamber of Commerce and Presi dent Ralph E. Flanders of the Jones & Lamson Machinery Co., Spring field, Vt. Loh President Roosevelt’s economia: stabilization executive order of Oct. =(3 provided for the® establishment of regulations by Byrnes to control all incomes over $25,000 with allowan to be made for taxes, insurance premiums and fixed obligations. The WLB granted provisional a proval of voluntary wage raises bes tween Sept. 15 and Oct. 3, speci« fled that all wage increases directed by the WLB before Oct, 3 should be put into effect in accordance’: with the terms of such orders and’) reaffirmed its procedures for WLB. adjustment of labor disputes, Decide on Pay Raises ig
WLB Chairman William H, Das vis emphasized that his board defs initely has no jurisdiction over sale aries under $5000 because the presis. dent’s ordér contained no provision for supervision of salaried workers in that bracket. ; Salary is remuneration paid on a, weekly, monthly or yearly basis. Wages are generally paid on an hourly basis. Davis said the board would sdon decide the line of demarcation tween large and small wage ine creases or decreases and whether automatic increases provided in eX! isting labor contracts could be : without WLB approval,
VERNON F. BAKER DIES IN RICHMOND
Funeral services for Vernon Fred: erick Baker, 26, a former Indianap= olis resident, will be held tomorrow in Richmond, Ind.; followed by burs ial there. Mr. Baker was the son of Mr. Mrs. Horace J. Baker of Richm and had been ill a long time. 3 Survivors, in addition to the pares ents, include three brothers, Are thur Baker, Harold F. Baker and : Horace J. Baker Jr., all of Indiane apolis. :
State Deaths
DFORD-—Harold W. Wessell on 'Wife, Lena; mother, Mrs. wen sell; three sons, two byothers and one
sister. CYNTHIANA—George W. Fisher, 93. Sure pe B ENO aE . we. an on three sisters. mond : : 58. 8 Rud 0
i ANSVILLE_Albert W Weitzel, €, , Weitzel. Mayme; Broder, Mrs. Grace Mutschler, 59. Suet Husband, George; daughter, Mrs. Halbrooks: | oe ad Mutschler; sate; brothers, David, ha J Bok Sn) Elva C. Dicken Savin vors: Jr. eB Buvid, Daiel aga Ei brother, Charles Dickens, BUNTINGTO MM Rineh
mother, ON—Horace C. Wysong, 56.
LEBAN vivor: Wife, Blanche. LYNNVILLE—Mrs. Geneva Hopper, 36.
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vivors Nea E old. ) vors; Dan “Reed, Miss Netile Ro Reinhart o Adam, Jacob, To a , Adam, Otto and Je John: John Wirtz ang
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38 per 1000 live births, compared | Can
to a rate of 7.4 in 1919.