Major Leagues Open Season With Day Of Baseball
New York April 2. Weather permitting, opening day kicks off with the Senators facing the Athletics at Griffith Stadium expected crowd around 27 000. Yankees and Cardinals favored to repeat as champions though war drafts affect rosters and attendance. Vander Meer’s 1-A status may impact the Reds pennant hopes.
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Daily ball reports for front line boys amid war era broadcasts
New York April 20 radio plans announce daily ball game reports for service members. The Office of Information and the Army Wireless Service will broadcast games worldwide with play by play limited to brief summaries to avoid static. Major Irving Soells oversaw 10 minute forums three times daily from New York and the west coast. The Blue Network’s Ja e Masell will host with Ted Husing and Bill Stern alternating. interviews to vets will be aired.
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New York
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Away
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OWT
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Voice Broadcasting Division
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Eneik
Stewart Spi
Army Special Service Corps
Porendensis
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North Africa
Sports Cup by Hugh Fullerton Jr Wide World Sports Column
A mosaic of sports notes and items from April covering golf, Yale athletics, jockey Marion Haycock, the Kentucky Derby buzz, Missouri wrestling, White Sox and Cubs spring crowds, Navy flight prep, and base lineups. Key names include Red Ralfe, Yale, Burnt Cork, Ted Williams, Micke McConnell, Camp Campbell, Port Sheridan, and Billy Conn.
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Churchill Down
Anderan
Hacock
Missouri Militare
Rajah
White Sox
Micke McConnell
Declors
20Th Armored Division
Camp Campbell
George Lacy
Port Sheridan
B. J. Rosenthal
Chicago
Jawa Navy
Fights Last Night By The Associated Press
Boxing results reported from across the country feature Willie Pep defending his featherweight crown by points over Angel Aviles in Hartford and Tommy Jessup stopping Pete Galigno in Springfield. Other bouts list draws, knockouts, and decisions involving Frank Cita, Jimmy Callin, and Jack Chase among ring action in Philadelphia Newark and Los Angeles.
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Pla
Willie Pep
Hartford
Conn
New York
Angel Aviles
Mexico City
Knlyoke
Mass
Tommy Jessup
Springfield
Mags
Pete Galigno
Ballinsorp
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Charles Liz Cahslanting
Frankie Cita
Philadelphia
Drew
Washington
Pat
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Jimmy Phillips
Cumberlynd
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N. J
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Trenton
Nep Mitchell
Larry Sealone
Gib Jones
Cincinnati
New Orleans
Louis
Cocoda
Charles Burley
Minneapolis
Geenon Puck
Cal
Jack Chase
Los Angeles
Leon Zurita
Sports Mirror Today A Year Ago Recap
A year ago Bob Montgomery and Joe Peralta fought in Philadelphia while Blaine Rideout won a 4:10 mile. Hays and Glen Cunningham were noted. Five years ago Bob Feller shut out the St. Louis Browns 9-0, with Bill Sullivan driving the win in the sixth. Dakar’s location is described as almost equidistant from South America and Europe.
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Associated Press Today
Bob Montgomery
Joe Per ‘Alta
Philadelphia
Blaine Rideout
Gilbert Adds Veteran Pitcher and Catcher to Nashville Roster
Nashville skipper Gilbert lands veteran catcher Walter Ringhof and pitcher Henry Singer to bolster the Volunteers ahead of the Southern Association opener with Atlanta. Additional deals in Memphis and Knoxville aim to add a second baseman and an outfielder as teams prepare for season starts.
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Vey — Latyy
Minuier Gilbert
Nashville
Haa
Neal
Recum
Voluntteers Isd
Giliert
Walter Ringhofrt
Heny Singer
Crackers
Gilbert
Memphis
Dee Prothro
Knoxville
Buddy Lewis
Mick O'Neill
Jimmy Sullis
Ue Chicks
Prothro
Jimmy Hicks
Pete Gray
Toronto
Meimplus
Chicks
Johnny Marrow
New Orleans
Blades
Vernon
Trader) Harn
Nca
Bucky Jacobs
Chattanooga Lookouts
Red Lane
Fort Benning Baselhillers
Birmingham Barons
Annual Easter Service Here on Sunday
Churches in Hape join in Easter Sunrise Service at the High School Stadium. Ministerial Alliance cooperates for an unusual service with record attendance expected. Special music by Mrs Pi Gaston, congregational singing directed by Clifford Franks, instrumental preludes by Kenneth Crank. Rev Paul Gaston will deliver the gospel message.
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Hape
Pi Gaston
Clifford Franks
Kenneth Crank
Paul Gaston
Mape Gospel Pubernaccle
Fort Smith Banker, Newsman Dies
Fort Smith April 20 a sudden illness brought death last night of Hy Nakdimen 73 who built a newspaper and banking fortune in Oklahoma and Arkansas He was president of the City National Bank of Fort Smith and at one time headed 16 banks Survivors include a daughter a son four sisters and a brother Funeral arrangements were incomplete
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Hy Nakdimen
United States
Oklahoma
Arkansas
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Workmen's Insurance Rates to Be Lowered
In Little Rock, Arkansas, Insurance Commissioner J Herbert Graves announced a four to five percent rate cut effective June 1 for all but nine classifications. The change will yield about 150000 dollars in insurer savings and follows two prior reductions since 1940. Exclusions include bottling plants saw mills logging mining retail clothing stores auto supply and service stations firemen and hotels.
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Apell
Ackonglas
J. Herbert Graves
Grave
Arkan- Sap
Graves
Hollywood By Robbin Coons Wide World Features
Hollywood features discuss a Wesler piece on prewar Soviet jabs and a US conductor’s arrival for a Soviet themed film shoot at MGM. It notes Gregory Ratoff directing with Robert Taylor and Susan Peters, with draft board scrutiny during a on set visit by visiting soldiers.
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North Ster
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Trussian
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Comrade XX
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Robert Taylor
Naval Radiationaliy
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Ronald Colman
Random Harvest
Appointment in Berlin Beckons for Veteran Actor
A veteran actor close to 88 years old faces a possible Berlin assignment if he clears the physical. The man once linked to Germany and Nazi sympathies by outsiders is now retiring from talk of pictures and preparing for a real U S Army appointment in Berlin.
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Haw-Haw
Sanders
Berlin
Uncle Sam
Local Army and Coast Guard News From Shower Springs
Private Leonard England of the Coast Guard based in New Jersey returns to duty after visiting his mother who is ill. Privates Lee Bingland and England of San Antonio also spend time at their mother’s bedside. Mr. and Mrs. Carrol Mullins and children return to Dallas after visiting relatives. Mrs. Horace Tye spends weeks with her husband at Grenada Army post. Glendon McWilliams leaves for Memphis for Air Corps mechanics training. Jack Rogers hospitalized in Little Rock. reported improving. Kid E. T. Burgess of Waldo to fill regular appointment at Shower Springs this weekend. All urged to attend church.
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England
San Antonio
Carrol Mullins
Dallas
Roy Mullins
E. Aaron
Horace Tye
Army
Grenada
Glendon McWilliams
Memphis
Sugar Available for Home Canning in Arkansas
Little Rock April 20 Ar kansas housewives may get sugar for home canning of 1843 fruit crops by applying to their local ration ing boards District GPA Director Robert P Hall announced today War Price and Rationing Boards have been instructed to accept ap plications for home canning sugar on last year's basis to prevent spoilage of this year's fruit crop He boards are authorized to issue one pound of sugar for each four quarts of fruit to be canned and one pound per person per year for preserving No deduction of blue paint stamps from Rolton Book Two will be made for the sugar Hall said.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
GPA
Robert P. Hall
Rolton
Sugat
Hall
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