Graf ton Senior Boys Meet Newburg Independents in Benefit
Graf ton High School hosts a benefit basketball game featuring Senior boys versus Newburg Independents. McDade and Lys Richard Edwards, ex Fairmont State and Marshal College players, join Newbury's talent pool. Funds support the school's physical education program. admission is twenty five cents for students and adults.
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Hall
Aye County
Boxing Wins and War Reflections From Past Page
The piece records boxing results Freddie Archer outpointing Fritzie Zivic in Newark and Jack Chace beating Paul Lewis in Oakland, with a long war column discussing postwar Russia as a rising power and foreign policy concerns. It notes uncertainty about Russia's future influence and Britain’s empire fragility amid global tension.
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Tigers face 1944 season with green hands andmissing men
Evansville dated sports column notes Detroit Tigers 1940 pennant winners rely on 34 players in the armed forces. Manager Steve ONeill oversees a reshaped roster with 15 draft-exempt players, 4-F players filling key roles, and a pitching corps led by Newhouser Overmire Trout Gentry. Catcher Swift and Wakefield replacement Outlay contend for spots alongside Ross, Wood, and Cramer.
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Evansville
Ind
Maren
Detroit Tigers
Tigers
Detroit
Steve O'Neill
The
Rudy York
Don Heffner
Eddie Mayo
Pink Higgins
O'Neill
Loris Browns
Jimmy Outlay
Dick Wakefield
Roger Cramer
Don Ross
Joe Wood
Proposed draft bill pins 4 F draftees to labor brigades
Undersecretary of War Robert P Patterson urged conscripting 4 F men who refuse essential jobs, estimating 3.8 million 4 F’s ages 18 to 37 with about 1 million qualified for industrial work. He proposed inducting those not in essential work into an enlisted reserve for assigned jobs or labor battalions, while a small residue would remain in the army without mustering pay or veterans’ benefits.
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Ikely
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Beau
Bear Mountain
N. Y
Robert P. Patterson
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Extremist Jewish and Arab undergrounds grow after jail break
Reports estimate Abraham Stern faction revived after a mass jailbreak, swelling from around 40 to over 100 members. The Bau and Hagana groups are cited with 3,000 to 7,000 and 70,000 to 90,000 members respectively, the latter well armed. Arabs are described as armed individually, with a pan Arab movement tracing to Nasir Pasha in Egypt.
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Major Managers Moan Over Training Weather Now
Major league managers complain about training weather while Frick sees sunshine. Frick visits Pittsburgh Pirates in snow and notes teams benefit from indoor drills as he heads to Louisville for weekend exhibitions. Other clubs report travel delays, injuries, and roster shifts as camp progresses across the league.
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George Weiss
Yanks
Joe McCarthy
Boston Braves
Nate Andrews
Rod Caleman
Boston Red Sox
Joe Crain
Oscar Judd
Canada
Tom McBride
Little Rock
Ark
Middle East grows powerful, protests Israel aid resolution
A minister notes a rising Arab-led bloc shaping Middle East policy as seven Arab speaking countries protest a pro Jewish congressional resolution in Washington. The Palestine issue could flare as Jewish immigrants arrive. Moscow reports casualties and SS units among prisoners, while Soviet forces push toward Kamenets Podolsk and Cherkasy pocket areas near the Dnieper.
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Moscow War Bulletin
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Russian Forces Press Across Front in Eastern Europe
Red army units stormed into Czernowits near Prut while hand-to-hand fighting raged for the city. Zhukov’s forces cut the Czernowita rail line, threatening Mannstein’s south front as Konev’s Ukrainians seized Balta and advanced toward Odessa. Heavy casualties reported on both sides amid a broad offensive along the 215 mile arc from Nikolaev to the Dniester.
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Allied air and sea strikes hit Rabaul frontier islands
Allied forces unleashed heavy bombing along the north coast and targeted Barkar island near Madang. Ninety three tons of bombs were dropped on Ra baul and New Britain levelling at least nine buildings and igniting fires in supply dumps. Bougainville shore installations were shelled by destroyers and gunboats. Five enemy barges were destroyed or damaged. Maj Gen Robert Reightler predicted Bougainville's Japanese counterattack would collapse within ten days, saying they are impotent as a fighting force.
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Apprentice Jockey Permane Sets Hot Pace With Wins
Miami rider Bobby Permane, 20, tore through Tropical Park meets with three wins, adding to four firsts the prior day. The Camden, New Jersey teenager, now at 28 wins in 21 days, drew attention from top trainers including James Fitzsimmons. Permane benefits from a five pound apprentice allowance, with offers and interest rising as he gains fame and shifts toward New York meetings.
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Sunny Jim
Fitzsimmons
New York
Island warfare numbers hover over long conflict
Major Gen. John R. Hodge estimates 20 000 enemy troops remain on the island as 5 000 killed by the 37th. The enemy’s losses run at about 30 to 1 of ours. The United States supplies about 70 percent of oil for the United Nations amid a note on ancient Greek customs and a reference to 29 islands in the Bahamas.
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Squeeze Kids Meet St Johns for Charity showdown
Utahs squeeze kids clash with St Johns at Madison Square Garden tonight to raise a 30000 donation for the Red Cross and test new rules as a de facto national championship clash. About 18000 are expected as Utah defends its national collegiate AA title while St Johns seeks informal crown status. Army teams from Mitchell Field and Aberdeen proving ground will test rules changes in a preliminary game.
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Miners Face Choice Among Pay, Conditions, and Travel
Nationwide suppression of wartime fines disperses miners as some are urged to return to mines with possible travel and lower or higher wages. Production rose as hours lengthened to about nine per day six days weekly, drawing from experienced workers while beginners find some underground training. The oldest turtle record cites Marion's tortoise living 152 years on Mauritius.
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