Major League Baseball Armed With 291 Available Players
New York Jan WWI United Press survey shows 16 clubs have 291 players available for 1945. Of these 223 are 4-F or displaced, 31 discharged veterans, 32 overage, five underage. 239 more in 18 to age bracket may become 4-F after medicals. Executives from Giants Athletics Phillies Pirates and others favor continuing season with war effort.
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New York
Roosevelt
United Press
New York Baseball
Sam
Eddie Brannick
New York Giants
Roger Peckinpaugh
Cleveland Indian
Herb Pennock
Philadelphia Phillies
The
Philies
Roy Mack
Philadelphia Athletics
Clark Griffith
Washington Senators
Kiam Harridge
William E. Benswager
Pittsburgh Pirates
Earl Harbor
J. A. Robert
Don Barnes
St. Louis Browns
Barnes
Harrisburg Gas Co Meter Cards Cut Billing Delays
Harisburg Pennsylvania consumers read their own meters due to manpower shortages. They mark printed dial cards and mail them to the gas company, which then sends out the bills.
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Harisburg. Pa
Harisburg Gas Co
Sports Roundup Sparks From Coast To Coast
New York reports memory stories about Lefty Gomez and Tony Lazzeri. A SF club starts weekly luncheons for sports writers. Wisconsin denies football links with Yale and Penn State. St John’s coach Lapchick blasts critics at a convention. Bobby Ruffin pivots to singing, Tommy Moran as rival. Ted Schroeder trains at Jacksonville NAS after naval service. Harvard Nebr Army Air Field team beats local peers except Lincoln AF. Leo Durocher’s troupe meets Red Cross nurse Shirley Cobb overseas.
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San Francisco Baseball Club
Charlie Graham
Wisconsin
Yale
Penn State
Tion
Joe Lapchick
St. John's
Philadelphia
Bobby Ruffin
Bobby
Tommy Moran
Sinatra
Ted Schroeder
Jacksonville
Fla
Naval Air Station
Harvard
Nebr
Army Air Field
Lincoln Air Field Club
Leo Durocher
Shirley Cobb
Red Cross
Free Vote Planned for Servicemen
In Little Rock on January 17 14 the Senate approved a resolution by Sen O E Jones Batesville to create a five member committee to draft legislation expanding voting access for servicemen and others. A proposed absentee voting bill would permit ballots by letter with a physician certificate. A marriage license validation bill passed 29 to 0 covering licenses issued by officials other than county clerks.
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Little Rock
Senate
O. E. Jones
Batesville
Caling
Sen
Weeias Trussell
Fordyce
Justices of the Peace
Guy E. William
Arkansas inheritance tax statute of limitations approved
A bill to set a ten year limit for enforcing inheritance tax actions passed 27 to 3, affecting Mississippi and Crittenden counties and neighboring states' residents. Sen John W Cloer of Springdale sponsored the measure, while Sen Tom Kidd of Murfreesboro opposed, saying it could let heirs avoid tax when no administration is needed.
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Mississippi
Crittenden
Missouri
Tennessee
Arkansas
John W Cloer
Springdale
Sen
Tom Kidd
Murfreesboro
Sage
Albany Is Oldest Chartered City in the United States
The message notes Albany New York as the oldest chartered city in the United States. It reflects on invention and the idea that every man should be an inventor, quoting noted thinkers.
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Emerson
Albany
New York
United States
Pension Increase Move Aims To Add 1.6 Million Yearly
Leaders of old age pension forces in Arkansas House introduced a bill to raise annual grants by about 1.6 million dollars from welfare fund surplus. The measure would lift the household budget deficiency from 75 to 100 percent, boosting recipients by about one third.
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Little Rock
House
John Abington
John S. Ferguson
White
Welfare Department
Abington
White County
J. Orville Cheney
Calico Rock
State Game and Fish Commission
Eugene Coffelt
Benton County
C. L. Haskew
Logan
Haskew
Arkansas
Heartsill Ragon
Sebastian
State Penitentiary Board
van Dalsem
Jap Plane Output Cut by Raids
At Nagoya the Giant Kobuki Mitsubishi subsidiary plant was cut to about 59 percent output after a December 16 raid by U S Superfortresses. The Nagoya factory, a feeder for other Japanese air centers, was 40 percent out of commission. The Hatsudoki plant, also part of the Mitsushishi works, had been damaged previously.
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Lesse
Hatsudoki
Mitsushishi
College Scores From AP Roundup Across Several Games
East Penn State defeated West Virginia 52 to 27 while Temple beat Valley Forge Medics 41 to 37. La Salle 56 edged Rider 45 and Yale 44 edged Coast Guard Academy Meine 49 to 40. Rhode Island State topped Brown 70–59 with Muhlenberg 46 and Swarthmore 33. Army 48 defeated Columbia 31 and Syracuse 52 beat South Georgia Navy Pre-Flight 52 to 36. In Pacific theater updates a typhoon is noted in western Pacific and China seas.
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The
Associated Press
East Penn State
West Virginia
Temple
Valley Forge Medics
Meine
Colby
Rhode Island State
Brown
Muhlenberg
Swarthmore
Army
Lumbia
Galgate
Syracuse
South Georgia Navy
Georgia Tech
pSeane Ordnance Plant
Mississippi
N. Navy
Et Peary
Virginia
Hampden-Sydney
Clemson
Presbyterian
Midwest
Penn
Iowa
Central
Sedalia Aab
Kansas City Endrow Furnace
Indiana
Purdue
Herington Army Air Field
Rockhurst
Fairmont Aaf
Harvard Nebri
Southwest Texas
Aristion
Southern Memory At
West Oregon State
Washington State
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E. L. Moore
Swift and Co
Paris
Navy Dept
Naval Ordnance Plant
Camden, Arkansas
United States Employment Service Office
By William Ferguson
Saer Frank T. Szabo
Reese
NEA
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Lefty Gomez
Tony Lazzeri
Gomez
Lefty
Tony
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George F. Russell
Kroger’s Clock Bread
Kroger
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Arm & Hammer Soda
Country Club Salt
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