Pitchers Turn Hitters In 1932 Baseball Trend
AP dispatch notes pitchers across the leagues adding heavy hitting to their repertoires. Red Siting and Clint Brown lead the charge with timely homers and high batting averages. The piece highlights Montie Weaver, Wes Ferrell, and George Uhle among others as pitchers contributing strong hitting and base drives. Spain creates a new Republic order resembling the Legion of Honor.
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Mt York
Red
Senators
Yankee
Yankees
Montie Weaver
Washington
Clint Brown
Wes Ferrer
Cleveland Indians
Iown
Fern
Imest
George Uhle
Red Lucas
Cincinnati Reds
Brooklyn Dodgers
Ge -Shaute
Fred Heimach
Rans Thurston
Freddy Fitzsimmons
Ants
Ozzy Dean
Romise
Babe
Spain
Madrid
Isabel the
Trench Legion of Honor
Order of the Republic
Riding as the premier form of exercise for women
The author, an experienced rider since childhood, extols horseback riding as the best and most beneficial exercise. Swimming is a secondary sport, while rigid daily exercise routines are not favored. Riding is presented as a tonic for women with limited leisure who seek pleasure plus health benefits.
Pinchot Declines Senate Run Against James Davis
Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania announced he would not seek the United States Senate seat opposing James J. Davis. The statement was made in Milford New Jersey on August 30.
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Milford, Ja
Gifford Pinchot
Pennsylvania
United States
James J. Davis
Wives of Aliens Retain Nationality in Australia
An Australian woman will remain Australian in Australia regardless of whom she marries. Federal government adopts this principle after feminist pressure. Previously a woman's nationality followed her husband, causing injustices to women who married Germans and Austrians, especially after the war.
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Canberra
Australia
Weather Bureau Librarian Compiles 15000 Weather Terms
Charles Fitzhugh Talman of the U S Weather Bureau spent twenty years assembling a 15000 term lexicon for weather. It includes 500 local wind names 50 names for will o tis whisk and 30 obsolete hurricane variants.
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Washington
Impex
Charles Fitshugh Talman
U. S. Weather Bureau
New Gas Bomb Makes Bandits Meek and Seasick
A new high speed solid gas bomb named diphenylamine chlorasine is described as harmless as tear gas yet capable of debilitating criminals for 15 to 20 minutes. When detonated a yellow smoke causes sneezing coughing nausea and vomiting lasting five to six hours with no permanent injury.
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Howard W Blakeslee
Associated Press
Pittsburgh
J. W. Long
Federal Laboratories
Musicians Sought as Army Band Faces Enlistment Hurdles
Saxon Poyner bandmaster of the 117th Field Artillery notes we have men but not musicians. B Whitfield a city inspector doubts lawmakers will accomplish much with costly plans. Terry Driggers urges listening to singing for good music while J F Patterson laments press coverage. In Edison Ga a church floor collapsed during a song prompting plans to alert Ripley.
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Saxon Poyner
117Th Field Artillery
B. Whitfield
Edison
Grady Spann
Ripley
Relief expenditures decrease in June reports
The Children's Bureau reports total direct and work relief expenditures fell one percent in June from May to 22,960,285 dollars, with public agencies accounting for 10,136,032 dollars. Affected families numbered 793,169 across 757 agencies, average grant 20.86 dollars.
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Washington
Children's Bureau Today
Tulsa
San Antonio
Birmingham
Kenosha
Wis
Pontiac
Mich
Buffalo
Niagara Falls
el Paso
Loulaville
Lawrence
Newton
Mass
San Diego
Cincinnati
New Rochelle
N. Y
Evanaville
Ind
Flint, Mich
Harrisburg
Not in Jail Denies Charlie Ethridge Prison Claim
C IL Ethridge of 907 S Appletree street says he is not in jail and has never been. He states he hopes never to be jailed and notes misunderstandings by friends.
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Michael Endres
Nebraska
Charles Bryan
Endres
C. IL. Ethridge
S. Appletree Street
Sue McNamara AP reporter dies in Washington hospital
Sue McNamara of The Associated Press staff in Washington died Monday after a hospital stay starting August 7. She had an operation in Rochester Minnesota and then stayed with relatives in Tipton to recuperate. She was sister to H R McNamara Tipton city clerk and Mrs J W Dean Tipton. Prior to AP she worked in Des Moines and Omaha and covered Calvin Coolidge's vacation in the Black Hills.
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A. P
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Sue McNamara
Associated Press
Washington
Miss McNamara
Rochester
Minn
Tipton
H. R. McNamara
J. W. Dean
Des Moines
Omaha
Calvin Coolidge
Black Hills
Pneumonia Fatal to Sign Painter Fred Simon
Fred Simon, 43, a Louisville sign painter who survived a 110 foot fall in 1915 and injuries from almost every major bone, died of pneumonia. He recovered some use of limbs after the bones knit together and continued his trade. A Bavarian native, Simon had amazed physicians with his recovery after the crash through an engine room roof.
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Louisville
Fred Simon
Simon
Bavaria
Alabama Senate veneer taps school funds to bail Florala debt
In a barter style move, Senator Bart Cowart of Winston County sponsors a bill to authorize Florala to use school funds still in the defunct First National Bank of Florala to offset a $49 debt the city owes the bank.
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Bart Cowart
Winston County
Florala
First National Bank of Florala
Insurance Salesmen Arrested in Forgery Case
Fusion with Ernest V. Ethridge and another insurance salesman led to arrests here last week on forgery charges.
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Ernest V. Ethridge
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