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Journal and Courier from Lafayette, Indiana • 17

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17 LAAYETTE JOURNAL AND COURIER riday Evening ebruary 17 1928 Railroad News Additional News' iri World of Sports the "wounds on THURSDAY NIGHT (Continued from page one) TILTS ELIMINATE To New York OUR NET IVES game at to released from the hos HIMBBIGHT AND inordinate CHICAGO BOXER But then times have IGHT TO DRAW and be at Kokomo Cincinnati Pug Takes Early uugiug num last 11151115 captain wheeler and i Lead But Sanders Comes i are the nrobable start i vum uuumvio 10 arrived A 125 POUND IVES 6 he says 4 Totals OPEN TITLE PUT AT SATURDAY 7 4 6 4 Totals grace of optimism Rural County have been secured by Grade School ives to Meet the 13 Totals vs Win vs Win vs Win 2130 vs Wln vs vs Point vs 17 vs Bill vs the vs 5 12 SIZE 20 COLLAR Buck Creek Tigers 3 Independent Sectional least four weeks Tournament Results Aviation Address Dean Moore head of here on airships 33 Socking the Pelota 31 Pipe Nervousness May Easily Become a Habit By DR LOUIS BISCH w(ll visit soon boilermaker 16 ap 5 switchboard called a DR LOUIS BISCH brief It is a functional nerve con 14 0 Leo 3 16 1 0 0 game that doubts ob a feeling of and help the bodies Prosecutor will for 5 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 5 3 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 the owler attendance 0 0 1 0 6 1 0 2 1 0 1 1 4 0 1 however The fact few men 1 0 0 0 0 stationary will visit dia pin car hts 13 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 1 0 0 vs 0 0 3 ap Ind fire suun for du Howell by be Totals Referee Metcalf Back Strong at the in ish Totals Referee Grogan county basket a iour op the Totals Wea Miller Buck Michaels Pearl Hcilcraft INTACT Baxter did' not 1 good Crucial Satur Winner 1 Winner 5:15 Winner Winner 8: 15 Winner Winner 14 3 1 10 2 1 1 2 0 1 The lad was the experience some bloody towels cloth evidently lining 3 I 4 I Totals Cardinals (33) Martin Davis Miller McGuire Reigs 503 lias 511 re 4 east of afayette second EOPLE slip quite easily into nervousness and the nervousness has this old the young flashy sophomore forward Nerve energy is also It la distributed to wrong 1:00 2:00 Jackson Klondike contender for 0 0 3 3 5 4 0 Neill has on trains 3 brief time off fl reman has re on trains 9 14 8 0 3 1 0 0 0 3 4 0 0 1 0 SATURDAY Battle Ground 25 has will Peoria 'Ill at 7:35 5 4 3 Burbove fireman has re ported A Harrison Jones 'Vagoner Wilson Price Hunt Totals lyers (29) Silvey Ijange Baldwin Kirkdaffer Raines Smith the Kiwanis chib at its luncheon in The weekly ent to Stallard Monitor vs Buck THURSDAY Delphi 26 Deer Creek 14 St Anns Stockwell byterian 31 1 afayette Lafayette lyers Ilans Steinke the world's heavy weight wrestling championship charges that Joe Steelier and Ed "Strangler" Lewis have repeatedly refused his offers to meet them at any weight be tween 240 aMil 270 pounds He lives at Kenosha Wis and wears a size 20 collar Highland of laid at p111 Sills Bur John Sumtde red alley Wilbur McMullan and Walter Curtis NEW YORK SITUATION I 7 The New York situation con tinues to interest republican lead ers who are curious concerning how the state's big bloc of con vention votes will be split up when the' split up does come If the delegation goes to Kansas City uninstructed riends of Senator Curtis of Kansas an announced candidate are co operating with New York's Republican national committee man Charles Hilles and the state chairman George Morris to have the delegation uninstruct 1 ed and Curtis' supporters believe lie will get 'a big portion of thoi votes Hoover and Lowden advo cates also are active in New York 4 hoping to get a share of the sup port or Rail Reception Arrangements have been com pleted for the reception enter tainment and banquet of the' Ind ianapolis Division Veteran Em association of the Penn sylvania railroad to be held at the Claypool hotel in the capital city Saturday evening 1 Nace superintendent of the Ind ianapolis division will be the prin cipal speaker The association has a membership of 985 several hun dred of whom are expected to attend 2 0 0 4 0 1 0 0 Campbell who died GOOD WILL' DINNER Catholic Jew and Protestant gathered at a gqod will dinner in Richmond last night to hear outstanding figures of their creeds plead for religious tolerance Sen ator Ransdell democrat Louisiana spoke for the Catholics Governor Byrd of Virginia 'f or the Pro testants and Rabbi Louis Men dosa of Norfolk for the Jews The' Rev Peter Atnslie pastor of Christian Temple Baltimore father of the pood will idea and a leader of the Christian unity movement also spoke OURTH GAME Pipe Company (31) Vaulk Meacham Golden Vaulk Matthvs Sandberg Chase Jones Is off duty because of one bullet centering under his left shoulder and passing entirely through his body passing out un der the right inipple This may mave been the bullet that "Went through the windshield of the au tomobile in which the murders were committed as such a break was found on the windshield when the car was recovered in Decatur 111 where Burns and" Baxter abandoned it after their flight fol lowing the murders ABSENCE BLOOD Both of the bullets that41 went through back passed close to his heart and either Could have caused death The wounds it is believed would not bleed severely' enough to leave blood In the au tomobile this accounting for the fact that bloodstains were found in the car McClure 'had two other bullet wounds in addition to the' one in Evidently he had been more as he had his in a posture of de there are four bullet 'Gabby" Hartnett catcher for the Chicago Cubs is work ing out for the coming season la Espanol" He has donned the cesta and is hitting the pelota in the grand old game of jai alaL Totals Presbyterians (31) Cook Vyverberg Callison Lairy Castor Evans 1 Wheeler New York democratic candidate would be "highly acceptable" to him per second and 1 mention Cross the once town today and a question in his mind 8:30 a Stockwell 9:30 a Creek 10:30 a riday 1:30 riday 2:30 urday 7:00 Saturday Saturday Monon Officials Back rom Observation Trip Through South rank Lewis general su perintendent and William A Cal lison superintendent of motive power of the Monon railroad have returned from a several trip through Kentucky Tennessee Vil ginia North and South Carolina where they made an extensive study of the "performance of the mountain type locomotives in con templation of establishing some bigger power on the Monon lines They observed some of the' largest Mallet type locomotives in the world handling coal over the Blue Ridge and Alleghany mountains The engines weigh from 250 to 300 tons and handle with the aid of a pusher 100 cars of coal from the Virginia and West' Virginia fields to Atlantic ports The en gines observed were operated on the Clinclyfield and rail roads the of the discoverey of the dep bodies near oster Ind had and from On the other hand one may also fall Into the habit of being restless fearing worrying losing interest for other reasons Under such conditions one often finds refuge and a certain comfort in the neurotic symptom Loss of interest may be an excuse for laziness When you lose inter est you usually do not want to de the thing which fails to rouse yot and the loss of interest is a kind "i excuse The habit of worrying may ylek a certain kick When you worn about something you make it impor tanL And when you think abou' important things you likewise main yourself important Indeed all neurotic symptom have some such interesting expiana tlon behind them Sometimes a little conscious ani deliberate straight thinking will soo! make it clear to the neurotic wli? be suffers as be does Often of course the real causa tive explanations are hidden detl down in the unconscious mind an? cannot so readily be traced The point however Is to watci the neurotic manifestations to ret ognlze them as such and to try remove them as soon as possible If we did this there would be fewe i neurotica Nervousness would not sq quick)) become habiL OotmUbU 1W tepaprtin Senias us Heath uneral uneral services for Mrs Alice Heath who died Wednesday at St Louis Mo were conducted riday afternoon from the home of her son William Bo 'iuih HnnTiafH nvpnun Park itev Williams or Trinity Methodist chuc" ficiated the remains were to rest in the family i Springvale cemetery The bearers were A leigh Davidson Monon rain Chan ge Monon train No 331 Indianapolis to rench Lick beginning Sun day will operate tindep a new schedule It will leave Indianapolis at 8:30 a instead of 12:30 noon and will arrive at rench Lick at 12 noon There will be no change in the return ing time of train No 330 which leaves rench Lick at 1:35 arriving at Indianapolis at 5:15 as at present on engine fireman marked up for duty on engine 1 ireinau ported for duty 5 and 6 after a Meeker ported for duty and 40 Rose and Johnson are both off because of TOLERANCE AND HARMONY CHIE POLITICAL PLEA (Continued from page one) of John and' Martin Ellen McClure and was bom May 17 1870 near Elizabethtown Ky He had' re sided in Lafayette for nearly 50 years During that time he was employed as a laborer and worked at various places He also served as a policeman at Columbian park under the Ross administration for a shortl time Since then he has sewed is an extra deputy sheriff His wife died 26 years ago and since thiat time he made his home with his sister Mrs Harry Erick son who resides at 631 South Six teenth street Besides his sister a brother Smith McClure of La fayette survives night Ted Grove a rl 11 i a rvi i I iff Johnston Lieut Ralph isher of the state Prosecutor Lawrence went to Williamsport after Terre Haute Normal i Nips Vincennes 36 31 VINCENNES Ind eb A Vincennes university rally in the last three minutes fell short here last night by five points and the Terre Haute Normal quintet won a 36 31 verdict from the old post school With Normal leading 31 18 Pieleicr was sent in and he sank three baskets in the last three Il I 1 1 LU ituu LliVVlillCn Ill U1V I rally 1 I 1 and says he Iscertain the boys who visited Webster Groves were NEIBURGER) arena at the La held plenty of ac night for a small boxing fans when New Nickle Plate Time Card to Start Sunday The Nickle Plate railroad has announced a new time card which will go Into effect Sunday at 12:01 a ni central standard time Westbound train No" 1 has been changed to No 21 and will leave Lafayette at 6 ni instead of 4:40 daily except 'unday Train a lias been changed to No and will depart at 6:15 a as at present Train No 6 been changed" to No 26 arrive in Lafayette from in instead of 7:40 Those are the only changes that effect Lafayette Ad dition of two new trains No 9 Cleveland to St Louis and' No 10 St Louis to Cleveland have been announced Trains 3 and 4which heretofore operated between rank fort and Toledo will 'under the new arrangement run between To ledo and Indianapolis The switch to tne Lake: Erie tracks will made By DAVIS 'WALSH International News Service Sports Editor NEW YORK eb Light it is estimated travels at the rate of 186000 miles the only reason is that Leach lightweight and millionaire is in i 1 st i whether light will ever see the day it can race ahead of bad news The concurring murmur Dean Moore head of the school of science at Purdue gave an illustrated lecture before weekly hotel urize (By NORMAN The squared fayette armory tion Thursday group of loyal Captain Clark and the local American 7 Legion Armory Board presented a fast card that went to the finish in every bout The main event had a spectacular finish which aroused the fans to enthusiasm as Vincent Hambright of Cincinnati and' Tony Sanders of Chicago staged a fierce ten round draw The Cincinnati boxer who whaled away with a brilliant left that seemed to puzzle San ders gained points in several but the Chicago boxer seemed to be the' more aggressive during the in fighting affairs Neither boxer yielded ground and after seven rounds of even ex change of blows the battle raged faster while harder blows were struck Several times Hambright came through with double lefts that bothered Sanders and in the seventh round a left hook met the Chicago chin and sent him flat to the a seeming hay maker but Tony took the count of 9 and came back strong In the ninth and tenth prin cipally the last Sanders fought hard to gain back lost prestige and take a draw 7 In the semi Cecil Hurt Indianapolis wielder of heavy blows met more than Ins match in rankie Palmo of Cincinnati when the latter won out in an eight round argument Hurt in the last Legion fight gave a Morocco boxer the count in the first round His Thursday night opponent was a little more experienced and box ed the Indianapolis boxer and made him like it giving him a heavy barrage of left and "rights which told on Hurt Biffy Kane of St Louis won by a shade from Young Hebe of Cincinnati in a six round go Both weighed in at 103 pounds However while Kane was given the shade the smaller lad from Cincinnatf gave him plenty of opposition and press ed the fight at times Harold Memmerlng was too much for Herman Sawbert in the exhi bition match and landed telling blows that forced Sawbert to leave the arena I but lacked I Memmering possessed Totals Camdt (31) eCaln Delphi St Stockwell and Pipe Company Win Over Deer Creek Wea Presbyterian and lyers our good teams were eliminated by four better teams in the first play of the independent sectional tournament at St gymnasium Thursday 'night' Del phi eliminated Deer Creek St disposed of Wea Stockwell nosed out the Lafayette Presby terians and the Lafayette Pipe company eked out a victory over the Lafayette lyers The best games of the evening were the last two After trailing Stockwell 23 to )3 at the end of the first half the Presbyterian outfit came back so strongly vin the second period that they cut down the margin to two points' before the gun was fired The final score was 33 to 31 The game between the Pipe "company and the Lafayette lyers ended with the former team on the better end of a 31 to 29 score At half time the winners had a lead of 23 to 10''but the lyers also pulled a rally that carried them to with in three points of a victory The xither two games were a little more "one sided Delphi took a rather easy victory from Deer Creek 26 to 14 The score at the half was 12 to 5 St trounced Wea 27 to 15 The score at half time was 15 to 8 Summaries: IRST GAME Delphi (26) Leslie Holsinger Cowdin Crane Isaacs Short Mc i city last I Sher news The concurring you hear from the rear of the hall probably emanates from Lew Tendler who like Cross made a fortune in the dual role of light weight boxer and a heavyweight realtor Leach Cross has come back aft er a span of year to the Ghetto of his boyhood He arrived sev eral days ago from California followed by two fifty dollar bills that is if they following him the heel of each of shoes was violating a confidence The fifties were cached in the only way that would satisfy a man who valued them inordinate ly It is not a matter of record that the old Leach Cross was given to valuing anything except his health changed Only a PURDUE DUT IT HUS EECTIVE watch our nerve re the alert and emo definitely axed that they undermine and change pur whole 1 oo konnmose voiri arisisaee luiounanijj ancvvujg vua Big our Is Sued In Subsidy Action Charging that a subsidy of 000 was voted the Big our rail road in 1895 with the understand ing that it would always maintain division shops at Wabash Ind Gardner trustee of Noble township Wabash county has filed suit in circuit court against the 7 Big our to recover this amount with interest since July 1925 The Big our moved its shops i from Wabash to Anderson at that time The Big our re fused then to return the $55000 The amount given was ranged taxation and if recovered willreturned to the township YOUNG SLAYERS STILL AT LARGE DESPITE CLEWS (Continued from page one) and familv Mitchell Ind Dalton is off duty because of THIRD GAME Stockwell (33) Anderson Cornell A nderson Hundt Dieterle Drake Davison Special to Journal and BUCK CREEK Ind The Buck Creek Tigers independent last night 33 to 31 thp end of the first 21 to 16 in favor of the losers Buck Creek made a strong come back In the final period and Lee local forward dropped In the win ning basket in the last minute of play The Dayton grade team defeated Buck Creek's grades 12 to 9 Summary: Buck Creek (33) Lee Kauffman Ieforge Gates Wiegand Jacot Booth Vandefkolk' finger prints to Lafayette to be compared with those of Burns IN MISSOURI Chief versole received a nies 'f sage from Andrew McDonnell chief 'of police at Webster Groves Mo near St Louis reporting that two lads answering the description of Burns and Baxter were in that city Thursday night ebruary 9 trying to sell an overcoat They said they were on their way to California and left the same night for St Charles Mo McDonnell saw pictures of Burns and Baxter in a ht Louis newspaper ceived when he was struck by an automobile a few dtfys before Mc Clure was an extra deputy serv ing in cases or emergency GROVE'S CAREER John Grove was born Valparaiso JVins OAKLAND CITY "Ind eb Valparaiso came into southern Indiana last night and won a hotly contested basketball game from Oakland City college 38 to 39 In March 1871 near Knoxville Tenn He lived there for a number of years and came to Lafayette in the late! nineties His first em ployment was on the Hatke farm east of I Lafayette He next en gaged in the grocery business at Sixteenth and Kossuth streets and operated it for 'a number of years Disposing of the grocery he sold automobiles for a short time and then with Thomas I Haywood and Charles Wiseman opened the Vernon clothing store His next employment was as a deputy sheriff and he was making his first trip to the state reformatory when he met death SURVIVORS Surviving Mr Grove is his widow Sarah (Biser) Grove to whom hewas married in 1902 He is also survived by a son Don Grove cf Sweetwater Tenn by a former marring1? Ted Grove of Aurora Ill a son Mrs Hamilton of a dajighter and Edward and Robert Grove resid ing at home His step mother Mrs Lucy Grove of Seymour Tenn also survives together with the following sisters: Mrs Nora Zachary of lagpond Tenn Mrs Mary Biser of Selina Ala and Mrs Ada Rogers of Seymour Tenn He was a member of Knights of Rythlas lodge McCLURE A WIDOWER Mr McClure was the Son GYPSY WILLIAMS KNOCKS OUT YAPBy the Associated Press ORT THOMAS' Ky eb 7 vpsy Williams Toledo bantam weight knocked out Willie Yap Indianapolis in the fifth round of a scheduled ten' round bout here last night 2 riday clock Saturday" 9:30 Sat Saturday MONON SHOP NEWS Robert Helmond machinist was off duty Thursday because of ill ness Everett Miller machinist help er was off duty because of the death of his sister Mrs Bertha Miller Pat Iong and William Hill en neers are off duty 9 flrerhen sickness Martin fireman has re ported for duty on engine 500 Engineer Head is off duty Harry 5 Eberhardt boilermaker i helper and wife in Chicago Orville Edwards man in lirk prentice illness Louis era tor death of a relative Joseph VanDame machinist help er is laying off Millard Justice shop watchman nas returned to work after a absence because illness Clarence Beeht machinist prentice will visit soon in ianapolis Elmer Paige boilermaker help er is off duty be cause of sickness reight Car Loadings reight car loadings for the week ending ebruary 4 totaled 926204 cars the American Rail way association reports an in crease of 23372 cars over the preceding week and a decrease of 39460 cars under the corres ponding week of 1927 The load ing of grain and grain products amounted to 53788 cars an in crease of 6908 cars livestock 35277 cars an increase of 7549 cars Edge Out Camden courier eb 17 nosed out five The score half was Impending danger restlessness self depreciation loss of Interest chronic' any one or more ot these and there are others may be symp toms: If a person only occasionally sbowis a malfunctioning of nerves we do not say he has a neurosis We say simply that he Is that is he has a tendency to de velop a neurosis Neuroses are on the' Increase1 Neurotic symptoms even more so Every day life is becoming more and more complicates intense and depleting Often the uvous system is subiected to jerrific strain Totals Deer Creek 7(14) Dillon Shanks Jones I Shanks ry Rice Stockwell Quintet Has Two More Gaines STOCKWELL Inc? eb The Stockwell high school bas ketball team has two games left on its schedule Tonight it will meet the Alamo five on the lo cals floor and ebruary 24 it will meet the Hill ifive here At present the locals have won 10 and lost 7 games scoring 650 points to the opponents 504 In the Clark's Hill game Arndt Crider and Cornell will play their last home "game as they will be lost to next year's squad by grUjlaatlon leaving I itzgerald Thompson and ickle) as the ba sis for next year's I sou ad carefully planned the killing Evi dently some one who visited them at the jail before they started away on the fatal journey fur nished them with a pistol that was used in committing the murders This phase of the 'case will re ceive the careful consideration of the grand jury REWARD MONEY The special fund raised as a re ward for recovery of the bodies of Grove and McClure amounts to about $160 and it probably will be paid to the three Illinois men who found the bodies at older Ind The fund was started by John family who gave $50 Sheriff Johnston added $50 and the Knights of Pythias gave $25 MORE EVIDENCE The police department was in formed riday afternoon that Pring and Brewer of ferrysville searching near scene found other coats SILLS APPOINTED riday morning iri the circuit court Judge' Hbmer Hetinegar appointed A Sills jr special prosecutor in the case He will collect the evidence and present it to the grand jury which has been called to meet next Tuesday The fact that hat and a rubber owned by him were found at Maple Point indicates the crime was committed in this county therefore venue would rest here The grand jury summoned for service next Tuesday is composed of the following: William Bogan of Lauranrie township: Jaines Crowe Union David ifer Ran dolph Perry Lutz and John Hall Wabash and Lindsey Lau ramie PERORM AUTOPSY Thursday night Dr Heald of West Lebanon and Dr George Potter under the direc tion of Coroner Van Hamilton Lafayette Cardinals Upset Chalmers ive Ind eb The Lafayette Cardinals won a hotly contested basketball game front the Chalmers Gas House out fit here last night 33 to 31 At half time the visitors had a 24 11) lead over the losers Chalmers pulled a strong comeback in the last half anti came within two( points of tying the score when the gun was fired Summary: Chalmers (31) Hughes 0 VanVorst 1 Rowe 1 Bowman 10 Plumb 0 personality affecting our nappiness and success tor the future Nervousness is a blanket term anyway which is very loosely used and which covers a variety of conditions A much better term is the one medical men and psychologists employ It is neurosis A neurosis is a very definite entity litinn that haa nn organic basis In a neurosis the nerve cells and fibres are all intact arid able to perform the work intended for them tp do The reason they do not succeed is because usuajly they are depleted They no longer are able to manu facture a sufficient amount of nerve energy Wfl Rtpd places The sum total result Is mal functioning of the nerves ot one kind or another Now this malfunctioning of nerves is perceived by the sufferer as symp toms One person is keyed up and excitable and everything as he says on his nerves" Another complains of excessive fatigue Anxiety tears session suspiciousness Saturday ebruary 24 Entries Include Wea West Point Jackson Min tciondike Battle Ground Stockwell and Buck Creek Ralph Ingersoll Hill principal is in charge of the tournament The tourney sched ule follows: RIDAY Wea vs Dayton jn est Track Star Ineligible CHICAGO eb 16 Charles I Weaver the largest foot ball player in the Western Confer ence and the University of Chi thief hope in the shot put this spring as received notice of scholastic ineligibility wnicn keep him off the track team at police and Davison uie bodies were taken there Thursday The examination or was not begun until Davison few weeks ago Lew Tendler came to take a beating and was rewarded vAth a few pif fling thousands It was pointed out at the time that the lad rich beyond the dreams of avarice loved to fight and now was fol lowing the game as a hobby That statement must have been good for an ironical smile part It was a good story even if it right nf tho matter is that fight for the love ot it and Tend ler one of these He simply is doing the one thing he knows how to do best Leach Cross born to another day and age of fighting even do that The man who made a quarter million" in purses and twice that amount outside the ring now is talking of going into vaudeville with a monolougue candidly admitting that he needs PEOPLE slip quite easil before they know it become a habit We should therefore actions We should constantly be on that our apparently insignificant mental tional maladjustments do not become so sages The fact that $6692 was found on the person of Deputy Sheriff Grove together 'with bis diamonds valufed at $600 discred ited the first impression that tin slayers had robbed their victims It i certain they could 'have had little money of their own there fore would be likely to make slow headway in getting away The chief of police at Sumpter sent a message late Thins day night that read: "Sam Baxter Identified here from newspaper pic tures inquiring way to Savanali Ga Wire CRANKS AT WORK Cranks professional jokers or half wits persist in sending annnv mous letters concerning the where about of the deputy sheriffs a letter was mailed at Terre Haute at 12:30 Thursday nearly two hours after the bodies had been found It was sent spe cial delivery and read as follows: "Chief of Police: Look for the sheriffs bodies in shocks of corn on east side of road about 2 5 8 miles All urged that each creed judge the other by its best rather than its worst while Rabbi Mendoza called for to un labeled mari the dream of Jeffer son and CHICAGO HARMONY Chicago with its reputation for turbulence in politics as well a3 other fields offered the concrete example of practical political har mony There Anton Cermak president of the Cook county board withdrew from the race for gov ernor to become a candidate for the United States senate The idea was to make Cerfriak a run ning mate for Justice loyd Thompson candidate for governor Instead of splitting the party With an entry list ot sixteen teams the annual Tippecanoe county 125 pound team basketball tournament will opgn Saturday morning at the local A and there will be few dulls in hardwood activities on the hard wood until the champion is crowned in the final game Play will start at 8 in the morning and in the first and second rounds the teams will alternate halves in order to save time Nine attractive individualinedals (j bams to be awarded to the members of the championship squad and a silver basketball will be awaraea to the player in the tournament who displays the best attitude The complete tourney schedule fol lows: Lafayette lyers vs Prep Stars 4 8 15 Lafayette Cardinals ys Day ton 9: Oakland AH Stars vs Rom ney 9:15 Ifayette Celts vs Klondike 10:00 Lafayette Specials vs Bear Midgets vs Buck Creek Wea Grade Team vs Crouch School Juniors owler Cagers vs Oakland Cagers Winner 8 o'clock ner 8:15 1:45 Winner 9 o'clock ner 9:15 clock Winner 10 o'clock ner 10:15 o'clock 2 45 Winner 11 o'clock npr 11:15 1:30 'O clock 1:45 2:30 2:45 4 30 o'clock 5:15 Urnnlinm ami Cadv Will be officials for the tournament while red Goldsmith will act as official weigher Weighing in of the teams will start at 7:30 in the morning I DHILL SESSION Lambert Works on Perfec tion of Play for Clash at Indiana day aced with the Indiana Bloomington Saturday night which marks the first of five conference encounters that the Lambertmen will run up against in nine days Coach Ward Lambert sent his bas ketball hopefuls through a pains taking drill yesterday afternoon that ended with a closely contested scrimmage session between the and the Still minus the services of Glen Harme son who spent most of the afternoon after beinsr pital in trying to move his injured ankle about Lambert spent con siderable time with the reorgani zation of his forward pairs Practically all hope of Harme son being able to pla? has been abandoned hut Lambert will have Captain Wheeler Cummins Wil son and Lyle as a group to do his forward picking from which should mean a good working combination in any event The loss of Harme son will be felt most in his clever and unrelenting defensive play and floor Working ability in addition to his scoring power was demonstrated in the tilt with Mich fran Tmls lne from last workout UIIIIIIUIS die Lilt? piCJMCLMld iSLCLIL ers at the forward berths with Wilson who has rapidly been re turning to likely to replace either of the pair at any time Stretch Murphy will undoubted ly cavort in his customary berth at center with Dutch Schnaiter and Harry Kemmer working be hind him in the guard berths al though Cotton Wilcox may share a part of the time at the floor guard berth with Schnaiter" a break was fine' you eat the And so with the instinct of the homing pigeon he returns to the old familiar streets and their endless parade of faces older now and less familiar leaving behind him a memory of those fliers in the stock market the money he made and spent and lost and lent really have worked up a good he says earnestly ought to go good particularly around New York where my ojd friends could come and hear me Leach Cross did have many kind friends and followers here in the days when he needed neith er It is well that a thoughtful providence takes due account of the saving grace of optimism Monon Tinner Undergoes Operation William Rohling tinner in the coach shop at the Monon shops was removed Thursday evening from his home 2324 North Nine teenth street to the Home hos pital' to undergo an operation ri day1 1 Leach Cross Comes Back John Grove was the regular deputy sheriff having succeeded am December 8 1927 from injuries re Winner 1 winner Winner winner 8:30 Winner winner 10:30 Winner 1:30 vs winner 2:30 SECOND GAME St Ann's (27) Dienhart 0 Becht 3 reyman 2 Cooper Lee Jurkins Major Leagues Backing Baseball Plans NEW YORK eb The ma jor leagues feel that tthe American Legion's plan for developing sand lot baseball offers an excellent means of perpetuating the na tional game and of "keeping the youth out of rtischief It was chiefly for these two rea sons that the American and Na tional leagues meeting in Chicago this week voted to contribute $50000 to the Legion's proposal which would bring 100000 Ameri can youths into baseball competi tion each year through a series of tournaments So said John Heydler president of the National league today when asked to explain just what it was that the big time circuits hoped to accomplish by their move Not only will the plan stimulate the American interest in the game Heydier believes but it also will result automatically in a substantial Increase in the num ber of playgrounds from coast coast wounds in his breast shot twice right arm fense for holes in the arm two above and two below the elboW as if each plowed through the forearm and then through the biceps AS all the bullets that struck him passed entirely through their size could only be determined by the size of the holes which appear to be large enough to have been made by a 38 calibre revolver the same one with which Grove was slain SKULL RACTURES head injuries proba bly were inflicted with the butt end of a pistol The head Injuries consists of four sharp cuts caused by heavy blows Beneath each of the cuts there was a fracture of the skull indicating that the blows were struck to kill was thought at first that McClure might have been slugged with the crank of the automobile but the wounds indicate a sharper instru ment was used Then too the crank of Grove's car was found under the front seat when the auto was recovered in Denature and it is not likely the slayers would have stopped to put it away if they had used it in the killing The guns that Grove and Mc Clure are known to have been car rying when they started away from the county jail Tuesday morning ebruary 7 with their supposediv harmless prisoners who burned out to be killers were three in num ber Grove carried two one a 25 calibre automatic and the other a 32 calibre of ordinary style Mc Clure was armed with a 38 call bre Colt the weapon that was found in a pocket of the car after its recovery with all chambers loaded and everything to Indicate the gun had not been fired for a long time WHO URNISHED' GUN? Inasmuch as the 38 calibre gun evidently had not been used and the bullets found In body were from a 38calibre weapon the authorities are confident that Baxter and Burns were carrying a concealed gun when they started for the reformatory a trip that had hardly begun when both dep uty sheriffs were slain bv their prisoners who then fled with the bodies hid them in a brush heap near oster Ind where they were found and then speeded away to uanvuie ana uecatur ill This means that Baxter Tlirna niiai VimrA 1 KJ I Ixd Ul L3a 11 Cl in their deed and that they had careruny piannea the killing the Lafayette fugitives Along the same line came 1 telegram to Sheriff Johnston from Ozark Mo It read as follows: and Baxter in Ozark Sat urday They are bumbing iliins on the highway and were headed for Tulsa Okla and to pick up the Old Santa ek trail Several here Identified them Thcv rode with me for 50 miles Recognized them after seeing newspaper pic 5 lures but they had left (Signed) HAD LITTLE MONEY The authorities are inclined tr give consideration to these mes une fact that $6692 was Wea 15 Lafayette Pres Company 29 performed an autopsy to determine the size and course of the bullets and the extent of head VALUABLES That Bums and rob McClure and Grove proved a suprise 1 Grove wore two monds a' ring and a stick worth perhaps $600 He also ried approximately $65 in pockets together with a watch Examination of the clothing at the Boyd funeral home in Wil iiamsporL where the bodies were taken disclosecy valuables intact i The diamond ring was on the third finger of the left with the diamond turned in to the palm The diamond stick pin was still in his tie In a small leath er wallet: Coroner Hamilton found two $20 tgold pieces and one $5 piece Irt' another pocketbook was a $207 bill a $1 bill and 92 cents in pos sessions ni were alsos still in his pockets bMcClure Avas an extra deputy sheriff and for that reason Mr Grovie carrled 'the money nec essary for any trip PAPERS MISSING The commitment papers issued by Judgq HomepflW Hennegar in the circuit' courts which were to confine Burns and Baxter in the state reformatory from 5 to 21 years for robbing William Mat tingly a West Point restaurant keeper dn the )night of December 13 19271 were missing as were the keys to the handcuffs which were placed Ciri the two men wMen they were" taken from the jail Onecuff was fastened to the left hand of one of the men and the other cuff to the right hand of the other man The place where the bodies were found is! in plain view of a north and south gravel road that runs from oster to Gessie They were 90 feet inside the fence and 27 feet front a cross fence on the south The spot where the bod ies were found is about an elgth of a mile south of Indiana high way 34 known as the Dixie which jiins from Crawfordsville to Danville Ill The ox woods is four and a half miles west of Covington 1 in Warren county and is near the Illinois nne RETURNED The bodies" of Grove and Clure were brought to the from Wil 11 am late SOU brother in iaw I Ten Seventh and Eighth Grade Quintets Entered In Clarks Hill Tourney ebruary 24 25 Ten rural Tippecanoe seventh and eighth grade ball teams will meet in nr an A hdd in the Hill high school gymnasium ri day and and 25 Dayton IN 4 0 1'0 I 7 i i i Al 1 A ''Sgc' i I wsrc 4 1 "fCT Ji III im jgia (I 5 "S' 15) I I.

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