Postwar planning boosts schoolboy baseball drive
Ambitious postwar plan favors schoolboy baseball with touring talent teams to spread gospel of the game and distribute rulebooks and films. Major leagues, if agreeing, would run clinics, tighten penalties on ineligible players, and create a national promotional department while revising playing rules. Major changes cover draft, territory, and a modest $10,000 class AA pay rise as a conciliatory gesture to the majors.
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Joe Reichler
Buffalo
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
J. Kemp Bartlett
Baltimore
International Jesgue Club
Southern Association
William G. Bramham
Landis
Multiple Teams Spark Busy Sports Roundup
Raleigh reports Beattie Feathers confirms Al Thomas signs for another year with NC State. Memphis Blues dominate Blues Bowl 7 0 as Handy performs. Kitchener signs Maynard Knarf with Hornell Pirates Pony League. Los Angeles previews Randolph Field versus Fourth Air Force game with heavy profiles. Dallas notes another Southwest scene, but details incomplete.
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Raleigh
N. C
Beattie Feathers
al Thomas
Tennessee
North Carolina State
Feathers
Wood
Los Angeles
Randolf Field
Air Force
March Field
Picts
Randolph
Madison Square Garden Bars Gamblers Says Irish
Ned Irish reports MSG shortens access to gamblers with a blacklist of about 60 names and a drive to bar those tied to betting. The column touches on football and baseball figures, university sports figures, and various one line notes from the season.
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Hugh Fullerton, JR
New York
Ned Irish
Madison Square Garden
Puzzler
Army
Stu Holcoms
Albany
Ripper Collins
Tom McCaffery
Rip
Judge Landis
West Point Cadet Corps
Baltimore
Annapolis
Baylor to Return to Gridiron Next Year as Conference Standalone
Baylor remains the sole conference member without a football team this fall and plans to resume play next season. Baseball rosters at Texas, Texas A, and M, Rice may expand with one or two entrants, SMU seeks a team, and TCU hopes to field one as well. The text also notes potential upheaval in European weather forecasting amid looming global tensions.
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Baylor
Texas
Texas A
Rice
Southern Methodist
Texas Christian
Rundstedt faces dual threats near Cologne and Saar
The war page argues Rundstedt refuses to shift from Roer defenses despite two major Allied threats near the Cologne plain and the Saar. It notes German losses, ongoing Allied bombing, and speculation of a fresh Allied northern offensive, with weather delays shaping the timetable.
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Rundstedt
Cologne
Saar
Roer
von Rundstedt
Ike
Eisenhower
Churchill Defies Parliament Over Greece Policy
Debates flare as Tom Driberg accuses Churchill of blackmail over a Greece crisis. Churchill says Britain will not tolerate armed rebellion, warning he will resign only if dismissed and vowing to press on with clearing Athens and surrounding areas of rebels to Greek authority.
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Ted
Italy
Churchill
Tom Dreiberg
Driberg
Britain
Greece
Athens
Roy Rogers in Western at York Opera House
Roy Rogers headlines two night engagement at the York Opera House backed by Smiley Burnette Peggy Moran and the Sons of the Pioneers The star targets a nefarious savovage ring posing as the Merry Makers' Revue in a lively traveling tent show debuting tonight.
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Roy Rogers
Republic
King of the Cowboys
Smiley Burnette
Peggy Moran
Sons of the Pioneers
Roy
Merrymakers
Call of the Jungle opens at Opera House tonight
Monogram drama Call of the Jungle unfolds on a tropical South Pacific island setting with vivid color and constant thrills. Ann Corio stars as the leading figure, famed as burlesque's loveliest lady, in this South Sea show.
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Opera House
Island
South Pacific
Ann Corio
Island belle leads in sarong costume film
A review notes a white actress as the island belle in sarong attire with James Bush as the lead. Claudia Dell John Davidson Edward Chandler I Stanford Jolley Muni Seroff Phil Van Vandt J Alex Havier and Harry Burns provide solid support in the cast.
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James Bush
Claudia Dell
John Davidson
Edward Chandlier
I. Stanford Jolley
Muni Seroff
Phil van Vandt
J. Alex Havier
Harry Burns
Hap py Land at Strand Reflects Old Hollywood Ties
Director Irving Pichel and producer Kenneth Macgowan forge a cooperative partnership around the 20th Century Fox film Happy Land. Pichel, who eyed Hollywood opportunities, directed this adaptation, marking his first project for the studio after a years long Broadway connection and mutual support between old college pals.
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Irving Pichel
20Th Century- Fox
MacKinlay Kantor
Pichel
Macgowan
Happy Land
Cast Heading in Happy Land Despite Fragmented Text
Macgowan lists Don Ameche Frances Dee Harry Carey and Ann Rutherford as the star cast for Happy Land with the heading of the production unclear due to incomplete OCR text.
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Macgowan
Happy Land
Don Ameche
Frances Dee
Harry Carey
Ann Rutherford
Free press as glue for world news network
The article discusses how rapid news communication via telegraph, telephone, newspapers, and radio welds communities and nations. It cites the British empire rate of one and seven-tenths cents per word for news from London to Australia as an example of global connectivity and shared understanding through a worldwide news system.
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British Commonwealth of Nations
London
Australia
New York
Cooper
Welds the British common wealth together in rate stance
The passage argues for harmonizing imperial ties by aligning postal rates with domestic letter charges. It advocates a uniform framework that would link Commonwealth nations through comparable pricing, reducing divergence in their financial and diplomatic relationships.
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K. L
Tug) Wilson
Northwestern
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Wilson
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Rence
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Georgia Tech
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William Hackett
Ohio State
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Auburn
Hamilton Nichols, Jr
John Ferraro
Southern California
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Leslie Horvath
International
Chick
Ed Stettinous
University of Virginia Athletic Council
New Orleans
Manny Salvo
Carnegie Tech
Slippery Rock
Max Hannum
Eddie ‘Sawyer
Utica
Binghampton
North High
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Camp Lejeune N C
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Japan
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York
Cowboy
Clarksburg Finance Co
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CALL
Strand Theatre
STAG
Siace
Lee Bennett & Son
W. Mai
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Grafton Baking Co
Houses For Sale
Parrish Agency
Warder
Maple
Wsrewe
Walnut ST
Dewey Ave
Lingoen
Roger
Fairmont
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W. Vi
M. E
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Manama
Olaf
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West
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Baker -Coal
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Hota Gratton
Montgomery County
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