Majors Wind Up Annual Meet With Trades At Low Ebb
Baseball's winter meetings closed with few deals as clubs, facing wartime drafts, held onto players. Only Jim Bagby was on the block, with potential moves to St Louis or Chicago. The majors approved lighting plans, raised reserve and active lists, and funded youth and amateur programs while planning a January meeting to draft a new minor major league agreement.
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Joe Reichler
New York
Lou Boudreau
Cleveland
Indians
Jim Bagby
St. Louis Browns
Bob Muncrief
Chicago White Sox
Bill Dietrich
Washington
St. Louis
Philadelphia
Brooklyn
Cincinnati
Pittsburgh
New York Giants
Will Harridge
Mminors
Armed Forces
Big Loops
American Legion
Chicago
All Stars in Army Four Killed in War Time Sports
From New York desk Dec 14, a sweeping roundup notes foot ball season’s war time pull. Army Navy bond sales top $56.6 million with Mt. Bond Bowl pledges and corporate underwriters. A San Francisco Shrines East West game to be played New Year’s day highlights four fallen Shrine players and other service casualties. Reports detail soldiers, pilots and athletes killed in action across North Africa Asia and Europe, with military honors and Purple Hearts awarded.
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Hugh Fullerton
New York
Army-Navy
Baltimore
Randolp Field
Second Air Force
Branch Rickey
Bob Quinn
Bob
Buddy Kerr
de Absar
hMcs UY
Rachel St Tell
Vestal
United States
Ray Dumont
New Mexico
Joe Stell
Carlsbad
Gallup
Russ Newland
San Francisco
William M. Coffman
Coffman
Survey Ds
Eso Naranche
Army
University of Montana
Bizerte
North Africa
Donald L. Wemple
Colgate
Asiatic
Marianas
James W. McDonald
University of Illinois
Austin Straubel
University of Wisconsin
Holy Cross
Shrine
Navy
James Turner
Tom Alberghini
Marshall Green trounces Fairmont State 53 to 32 in basketball
Marshall college's Big Green overwhelmed Fairmont State 53 to 32 with Hall scoring 19 and Harrison 14 for Marshall while Swiger and Skidmore led Fairmont with seven points each. Other briefs note antler dispute in Montana, an international Sun Bowl talk, Citadel basketball free admission, a Chattahoochee derby win for Mrs. Lester Varn, boxing referees at Sheepshead Bay, and a Garden doubleheader crowd.
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SPORS
Fairmont
Marshall College
Fairmont State College
Marshall
Hall
Freddie Harrison
Swiger
Skidmore
Eufaula
Ala
Lester Varn
Jacksonville
Fla
Chattahoochee Valley
Allstius Shoals
Jackie
Varn
Bombing Raid Details on Nagoya by Superforts
Allied airmen pressed raids over Nagoya as B-29 formations claimed half their bombs hit targets. Tokyo radio put B-29s over Nagoya at about 80 and noted damage to a city crowded with war industries. Lt Earl Miller, shielded by flak, watched his crew drop explosives on the target while a plane named dauntless Dotty logged its tenth mission. The Winnipeg Grain Exchange traces back to 1908.
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Wage One
Emy
Tokyo Radio
Nagoya
Earl ¥. Miller Riversdale
Siapan
Japan
Kay Kyser Band Features Composer Sally Mason Song
Sally Mason of Kay Kyser's group has written his first song during the filming of Carolina Blues at Columbia Studios. The comedy novelty titled Cheesecake, I Love You runs 24 choruses and is dedicated to the boys overseas. Mason rehearsed the number with Ish Kabibble and Diane Pen.
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Sally Mason
Kay Kyser
Kyser
Columbia Studios
Mason
Ish. Kabibble
Diane Pen
Carolina Blues Opens at Dixie Theatre Today
The film Caro lina Blues co stars Kay Kyser Victor Moore and Ann Miller opens today at the Dixie theatre. An overseas broadcast idea is mentioned as a potential pitch to his boss. The report notes severe weather hindered air operations in France Italy Po valley and near Spezia with four planes missing.
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Kay Kyser
Victor Moore
Ann Miller
Dixie Theatre
France
Italy
Po Valley
Brenner Pass
Fifth Army
Spezia
Suit for Partition of 80 Acre West Virginia Land
Gay Boyles and Jerome Boyles seek partition or in kind allotment of an 80 acre 100 square rod tract in Knottsville District Taylor County West Virginia with sale and division if partitionment fails. Bertie Losh Emmett Losh and Bertie Losh surviving trustee are urged to appear within one month of first publication to protect interests. notice published in The Sentinel Finche County.
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Bertie Losh
Emmett Losh
Catherine Lyman
Carrie Wilson
Elizabeth Gay Moore
W. A. Moore
Betty Sharpe Lyman
Kenneth Shroyer
Knottsville
Taylor County
West Virginia
Gay Boyles
Bmtt Losh
Berte Losh
Catherine “Lyman
Then Sentinel
Finche County
Stony
Hollis
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