Mooresville crushes Lexington to 13 2 win in game
Mooresville toppled Lexington 13 to 2 last night as pitchers struggled. Highlights include M Watts and Skaff driving in runs, Cox homer, and multiple players stealing bases and contributing hits amid a rough pitching showing by Rehkamp and Downen.
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Lexington
Mooresville
Agwell
M'Giys
Smith
Sol
Watts
Johnson
Pixston
Morgan Jo
Cox c
Fehkamp
Fou
M. Watts
Downen
Fooveeville
Reeree
Skaff
G. Watts
Cox
Bagles
Rogers
Barnes
Organ
Glover
Morgan
Rehkamp
Lassiter
Foti
Standings show Piedmont and North State leagues with multiple results
Piedmont League standings list Winston-Salem idle and key results: Portsmouth 6 Greensboro 2, Durham 8 Charlotte 6, Richmond 10 Asheville 4. North State League reports Mooresville 13 Lexington 2 and Kannapolis 10 Landis 4 with listed matchups and partial standings. American and National League scores noted with several postponed games. Local baseball sections reference several minor leagues and a Columbus Ohio feature on football practice fields and a speedway.
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Sterday
Winston-Salem
Portsmouth
Greensboro
Durham
Charlotte
Richmond
Mooresville
Lexington
Kannapolis
Landis
Concord
Cooleemee Landis
Omasville
Seliabury
Sports Roundup By Hugh 5 Fullerton JR
Roundup of multiple 1942 sports items from baseball football boxing and boxing related notes. Highlights include Hawaii bidding for national swimming, Eddie Blunt Bill Poland fight set for Aug 27, Phillies first in season homer in every park, pitching needs for Carthage and La Crosse camps, and notes on Yanks gate receipts and future Army camp exhibitions.
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Hugh 5
Fullerton, JR
Eddie Brietz
New York
Enterprise Special News Service
Hawaii
St. Louis
Joe Cook
Boston Bruins
Neil Boardman
U. of South Dakota
Roosevelt Raceway
Eddie Blunt
Bill Poland
Washington
Phillies
Danny Litwhiler
Bivin Wins 17th as Richmond Tops Asheville
In Charlotte Aug 12 1941 Jim Bivin earned his 17th victory of the season as Richmond defeated Asheville 10-2. Max Wilson added his 16th win for Portsmouth in a 6-2 triumph over Greensboro. Durham beat Charlotte 8-6 with Ramazotti tripling in the 10th, Verban driving in two, and Ohno and Norwood contributing at the plate.
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Charlotte
Jim Bivin
Richmond
Asheville
Max Wilson
Portsmouth
Greensboro
Durham
Ramazotti
Verban
Bivin
Luis Olmo
Googe Speaks To AFL Group In North Carolina
North Carolina textile and furniture workers are to be organized by AFL group leaders. George Googe, southern representative, announced a major organizing drive to double and triple membership in wood working and furniture industries. Ed Weyler pledged rapid union expansion for NC wood-working unions. Textile workers remain largely unorganized despite CIO efforts.
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Charlotte
North Carolina
Ed. R. Weyler
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
Googe
C. I. GO
Thompson To Arrive Today For Boxing Show
Carlyle Thompson, a sensational young South Carolina heavyweight, arrives in High Point at 4 o clock to finish training for a 10 round bout with Arnold Tarr of Lincolnton. The fighters clash Saturday at South Hamilton Street Arena in High Point’s first boxing show in years. Promoter J R Steele endorses Tarr as a strong challenger and says he might tag Thompson early.
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Carlyle Thompson
South Carolina
High Point
Arnold Tarr
Lincolnton
Hamilton Street
J. R. Steele
Tatt
Steele
Thompson
Major League Leaders Summary From AP Sheets
Batting and pitching leaders across leagues are listed with names like DiMaggio Keller and Ruffing Meek Reiser Hopp and Slaughter. Also notes on shifts in a Georgia Centre game and tobacco crop estimates with figures for pounds and value. A bomb scare in Queens ended with a chowder-filled package.
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Willians
Boston
Travis
Washington
DiMaggio
New York
Williams
Rolfe
Keller
Dudnich
St. Louis
Boudreau
Cleveland
Kelener
Geveland
Gase
Mahel
Chicago
Ruffing
Murphy
Hopp
St Louis
Reiser Brooklyn
Meek
Reiser
Brooklyn
Mizers Louis
Nicholson
Hite
Hack
Slaughter
Moore
Dalitssendro
Louis
Camilli
Frey
Cincinnati
Handity
Pittsburgh
Riddle
White
Pirates poised for long title push with Frisch leadership
The Pittsburgh Pirates show pitching depth and an all around strength to chase a season run, led by Frank Frisch who guides players and keeps them in line. Frisch's World Series pedigree and influence loom large as the club eyes a championship amid a busy baseball landscape.
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Harry Grayson
NEA
Pittsburgh
Pirates
Frank Frisch
Fordham
Cardinals
Frisch
Giants
Red Birds
Cleveland
Redskins
New Yorks
Joe McCarthy
Cleveland Long
Joe E. Brown
Pool Open For Swimming During A A U Events
The City Lake Pool will be open for swimming as usual for three days the 3 A A U swimming meet Friday Saturday and Sunday except during the hours when events are scheduled. Manager M T Lambeth announced the pool will operate on its normal hours outside those event times.
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City Lake
M. T. Lambeth
Lambeth
A.A.U
Thomasville Man Convicted on Abandonment Charge
James Leonard, a Thomasville resident, was convicted in county court before Judge Carl Wilson on abandonment and non support charges. He must post a $300 bond each January and June to show continued family support. Other locals, Charlie Suggs, James Edward Smith, F Floyd Hundley, and Henry Smith, received various sentences or fines for trespass, assault, reckless driving, and related costs with conditions upon good behavior. A separate notice notes a 1941 rise in vehicle sales figures.
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Thomasville
James Leonard
Carl Wilson
Charlie Suggs
James Edward Smith
F. Floyd Hundley
Route Two
Robert Rush
Willie Sharpe
Henry Smith
Midway
W. A. Saintsing
Chile detains four over pro Nazi plot at Puerto Montt
Authorities in Puerto Montt announce four arrests and seizure of arms tied to a pro Nazi plot aimed at democratic institutions in a region with a large German colonist population in far southern Chile.
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Santiago
Chile
Puerto Montt
Postcard Photo Delivers Tax Figures for 1939
Special Salt Lake City notice notes a postcard lacked an address but reached its destination with a photograph of Postmaster I. A. Smoot. It cites motor vehicle user taxes up to Sept 30, 1939 totaling $1,601,000 for the year 1939.
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Salt Lake City
I. A. Smoots
Mrs Anna Cummins Dies At Hospital
Mrs Anna Beall Cummins widow of Clinton E Cummins died Monday night at 10 in a local hospital after a Sunday afternoon admission. Born January 11 1873 in McCordsville Indiana she married Clinton E Cummins March 4 1897. they moved to High Point about 25 years ago. Surviving are two brothers and a sister in Indiana. Funeral at 4:30 pm Wednesday at the Cummins home 410 Edgedale Drive with burial in Oakwood Park Cemetery. Memorials to Park Cemetery Society.
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Anna Beall Cummins
Clinton. Cummins
Mrs. Cummins
McCordsville
Ind
Thomas 4. C
Caroline E. Beall
Clinton E. Cummins
High Point
Cummins
Anna
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church
Wesley
Edgedale Drive
Thomas H. C. Beall
John Beall
Laura Hamlin
Indiana
C. J. Cummins
Oakne
Oakwood
Park Cemetery
J. J. Corrigan
Claude Reitzel
J. T. Tucker
Clyde Swaim
Jerome Alexander
Lester Teague
Hubert Swaim
C. G. Bedford
Walter Walton
Thomas WW. Sprinkle
Former High Point Resident Is Taken
RAMSEUR Aug 12 Mrs Rachel E Nelson 81 wife of E C Nelson died at her home three miles west of Ramseur this morning at 9 o clock after a three day illness with heart trouble They had lived in High Point for 20 years before moving to this section last fall Surviving besides the husband are one daughter and four sons Miss Maggie Nelson of the home E A and C D both of the home H E of Worthville and J A of Franklinville route 1 one half sister Mrs Ada Free of Worthville and 11 grandchildren Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock at Old Union Methodist Church near Sophia Randolph County Burial will follow in the church cemetery
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Enterprise
Ramseur
Rachel E. Nelson
E. C. Nelson
Troupe
Nelson
High Point
Maggie Nelson
E. A
C. D
H. E
Worthville
J. A
Franklinville
Ada Free
Qid Union Methodist Church
Sophia
Randolph County
St Pauls Episcopal Church Planned for Thomasville
Thomasville will organize St Pauls Episcopal Church with Rev William P Price of Albemarle working to establish a chapel on Commerce Street ahead of a permanent building Services are planned each Sunday once facilities are ready A petition seeks recognition of St Pauls as an organized mission by Bishop Edwin A Penick of North Carolina Diocese
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Thomasville
William P. Price
Albemarle
Lsevary
St. Paul's Episcopal
Commerce Street
Edwin A. Penick
Diocese of
North Carolina
St. Pauls Church
Young Demos to Meet Thomasville Tonight
H Way Russell, president of the Young Democratic Club of this city, calls a meeting for Thursday night at 7 30 in the city court room building. Officers to be elected and delegates to the state convention in Winston Salem next month will be chosen. All members urged to attend. Car ownership in the United States is the greatest in the world with about one vehicle for every four persons. United States has TL percent of all the world's passenger cars and S54 percent of the trucks. In states there were 40 571 000 drivers licenses issued during 1940.
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Young Demos
Enterprise
Thomasville
H. Way Russell
Young Democratic Club
Winston-Salem
United States
Guilford
Democrat
Greensboro
Rupert Pickens
Treasury
General Assembly
Wade Renfrow
Rupe
Wade
Renfrow
Beverly Moore
Shelley Caverness
Cameron Morrison
Congress
John K. Slear
A. L. Bulwinkle
Charlotte
Paul Younis
Slear
Mecklenburg
Bulwinkle
Gustonia
Uncle Sam
General Lear
Signal Corps
Yoo
Sandhills
Tom Banks
J. M. Broughton
Tom
Boddie Ward
Japan weighs Siberian attack risk in war policy
The War Today notes Japan seriously considers attacking Russia in Siberia as a potentially safer option than expanding southward from its French Indo China base, hoping to avoid triggering United States intervention.
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Japan
Russia
Siberia
United States
French
Indo-China
Right Size Kinston Draftee Shoes Up In Fort Bragg Tale
Ed Hill of draft board No 2 jokes about a six foot selectee who swapped shoes with a much smaller man during medicals in Kinston. The tall man struggled in size seven and a quarter footwear, while Hill notes the other fellow’s slide and slip in oversized shoes as tensions rise over war news from Europe and Asia.
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Kinston
Ed Hill
Draft Board No
Fort Bragg
Hhi
CAPITAL SHORTS CAPS AND LABOR MONDAY TRIPSAHEAD
Raleigh Aug 12 report notes AFL convention timing and Gov Broughton’s schedule shows he could not attend in Charlotte due to prior engagements in Morehead City Raleigh and New Bern Wednesday and Ahoskie events. Mentions Guilford picks for 1943 reps and local political chatter with Slear Bulwinkle postmaster bid and Buford Morrison's absence.
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Raleigh
J. M. Broughton
Jim Barrett
Bartrett
Broughton
Tom Banks
Labor Institute
Charlotte
AFL
Banks
Morehead City
Morehead
New Bern
Council of State
State Board of Education
Elizabeth City
Sheriff's Association
Ahoskie
Textile union to strike at Erwin Cotton Mills
The Textile Workers Union of America CIO affiliate called a strike at Erwin Cotton Mills holders of defense contracts, protesting alleged increased work hours. Union spokesmen said workers were pressed to operate two machines instead of one, with no wage demands. A conference is planned tomorrow at the mills' Durham headquarters.
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Erwin
Textile Workers Union of America
CIO
Erwin Cotton Mills
Durham
Two High Pointers Lose Drive Tickets
The Virginia Division of Highway Safety revoked the licenses of two High Pointers convicted of drunken driving. Franklin Lee Peace of High Point had his license revoked after a Wythe County trial justice conviction. Hilli e B. Pendry’s license was revoked after a South Hill mayor’s court conviction.
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Virginia
State Division of Highway Safety
Franklin Lee Peace
High Point
Wythe County
Hiliie B. Pendry
Mayors Court
South Hill
Burglars Take Wedding Gifts From Bride’s Parents Home
Burglars broke into the home of the bride and groom’s parents during their honeymoon in Louisiana and carried off all the wedding gifts, shocking family members.
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Chicago
Sebastian Manola
Louisiana
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