Landis May Free Agents From Cardinals Scandal
Baseball Commissioner Landis may declare over a hundred players free agents amid a probe into Cardinals working agreements with Cedar Rapids and related camps. Secret testimony links Springfield and Rickey camps to player shuffles in 1935 36 37, threatening major league talent on the open market.
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Harry Grayson
NBA Service
Belleair
Fila
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Landis
Leslie M. O'Connnor
O’connor
Cardinals
Cedar Rapids
Rochester
St. Louis
St. Louis Cedar Rapids
Chicago
Cedar Rapida
Springfield
Branch Rickey
Red Bird Organization
Jwoks
Rickey Judes Landis
National Association
Bradeh Rickey
Harry Johnson
Cedaret
Illiam Gibbons Bramham
National Association of Professional Baseball Clubs
Ruth
Rickey Soundly Rebuts Landis at St Louis Hearing
Bramham reports Rickey delivered a sharp speech in Chicago on February 8 condemning the czar like stance of the Chicago jurist. Landis opposed the farm system and waited for the right moment amid the heated discussion in a Cedar Rapids hearing.
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Rickey'a Reed
Chicago
Landis
Rickey
St. Louis Cedar Rapids
Bramham
Pitching find in John Doehring stirs Reds prospects
In Tampa March 17 Bill McKechnie praised John Doehring Chicago Bears fullback and part time wrestler as a sensational pitching find for the Cincinnati Reds. The 25 year old battled ball tosses at a Reds workout and impressed with a fast ball and sharp curve. McKechnie believes he could be the finest prospect of his career, while Reds expect potential lineup improvements from Frank McCormick and Dusty Cooke if Doehring proves a baseball asset.
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McKechnie
John Doehring
Cincinnati Red
Tampa
Fla
Bill McKeechnie
Cincinnati Reds
Chicago Professional Bears
Bill
Doehring
The
Reds
Doehling
Bears
Washington Redskins
Cecete
Bronko Nagurski
Bill Hallahan
Cincinnati
Frank McCormick
Syracuse
Dusty Cooke
Benefit Checks Received Here
North Carolina State Employment Service reports additional unemployment compensation checks today. Claims interviewer J. E. Denton Jr lists numerous claim numbers with checks available at the office.
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North Caroolina
List of numeric values and codes in historic OCR fragment
The fragment presents a sequence of large numbers and yearless codes separated by commas. It appears as a garbled OCR extract with many 99 endings and no clear event, names, or context to connect the figures into a readable news item.
Poverty Is Thing Really Wrong With South Says Daniels
Raleigh March 17 Jonathan Daniels author of A Southerner Discovers the South argues the core issue is poverty not morals or culture He says the south needs a deep economic realignment and rejects easy fixes citing the industrialization debate and regional comparisons He is son of Josephus Daniels former ambassador and active in Raleigh civic life.
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Jonathan Daniels
Raleigh
Daniels
South
Raleigh News and Observer
Josephus Daniels
Mexico
North
New England
Jury Seadlund Receives Death for Kidnapping
Chicago, March 17. A federal jury recommended the death penalty for 27 year old Seadlund who kidnapped Chicago businessman Charles S Ross for a $50,000 ransom. Deliberations lasted 112 hours. If not reversed on appeal, he faces execution by electric chair in Cook County Jail. Seadlund had pleaded guilty to kidnapping. A new trial motion will be heard Saturday.
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Landis
Sandis
Chicago
Branch Rickey
Bramham
Rickey
Fiy
Branch Rickey Rom
John Henry Seadlund
Charles 8. Ross
Seadlund
Minnesota
Cook County
Seadland
Penn coach Munger rose from odd jobs to top post
Philadelphia report notes George Munger, son of a wealthy merchant, earned his way through the University of Pennsylvania by performing various odd jobs and is now stepping into the role of Pennsylvania's football coach. Ted Shawn in New York says he could mold a star from an average halfback with a specialized footwork course.
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Philadelphia
George Munger
Pennsylvania
New York
Ted Shawn
North Carolina Varsity Faces Georgia Tech in Atlanta Duel
Heris Fenders Chapel Hill reports NC University's enemy team travels to Atlanta for a fencing bout with Georgia Tech in foil épée and sabre events led by regional rivals and local athletes.
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Heris Fenders
Chapel Hill
North Carolina University
Atlanta
Georgia Tech
Kasik to Captain Duke Boxing Team in 1385-Pound Class
Charles Kasik of Milwaukee Wisconsin will captain the 1939 Duke University boxing team. He competes in the 1385 pound division.
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Kasik
Durham
Charles
Chuck) Kasik
Milwaukee
Wis
Duke University
Deep roots of regional differences linger in the South
The article argues migration shifts show deeper divides than economics with Southern laziness myths challenged. It notes cotton's four month demanding season and the impact on garden crops, plus race friction where white majorities persist, asserting trouble rises where blacks are not the majority.
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St. Petersburg
John Selby
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Ee Farr
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Lou Bristol
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