Wartime Openers Set as Big Leagues Reach Third Season
Opening day crowds forecast to top 125000 as major leagues begin a keenly contested wartime campaign. Yankees hit road to face Red Sox, Cardinals host Pirates, with Wallace to throw first ball. Reds and Cubs eye large turnout while Detroit and others feature notable pitchers Dizzy Trout and Hank Wyse.
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Connie Mack
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Dizzy” Trout
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Rip Sewell
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al Smith
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Williams Want a Chance To Meet Montgomery Again
Ike Williams qualified for a possible rematch with Bob Montgomery by stopping Mike Delia in 1 minute 54 seconds of the first round at the Arena. Gates totaled 9,447 paid 26,777.89 dollars as promoter Herman Taylor eyed a bout before Montgomery heads to army service. Delia, 134 pounds, had won 31 of 40 with Golden chances fading as Williams improved to five straight wins.
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Ike Williams
Bob Montgomery
Pa.-N.y.-N.j
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Ike
Mike Delia
S.r.co
Herman Taylor
Montgomery
Taylor
Williams
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Delis
Detroit Tigers Beat White Sox On Opening Day
Sports Mirror recalls past events with brief notes, noting the Detroit Tigers defeated the Chicago White Sox 6-1 on opening day before a large 47,000 crowd, and mentions Boston marathon winner Gerard Cyte and boxing bout facts from years past.
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Associated Press
Gerard Cyte
Mike Kaplan
Fritzie Zivic
Boston
Detroit Tigers
Chicago
White Sox
Journal-World
Spring training crosses borders in Russian Black Sea coast
New York sports roundup notes Soviet masters of sport gathered at the Black Sea coast in Sukhumi for a pre season training. Red army officers and Nina Dumbadze helped lead a track meet on April 12. Also mentions Russian soccer teams training in the area and local notes on Brooklyn Dodgers prospects and other baseball snippets.
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Russia
Moscow Dispatch
Black Sea
U.S.S.R
Sukhumi
Red Army
Nina Dumbadze
Florida
Long Hit Three Day Furlough Offered for Ball Through Window
Fort McPherson source notes a three day pass reward if a player hits a ball through a window of the commanding officer's quarters during a game. Col. Frank K. Ross, the post commander, announced the eye catching rule. The quarters lie across the street behind the right field fence, about 240 feet from home plate.
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Frank K. Ross
Boxing Offers For Zurita In San Antonio And Houston
Mexico City boxing report notes Juan Zurita has received offers to fight in San Antonio on April 27 and in Houston on April 29. Manager Felix Vera says no definite decision has been made and Beau Jack has not yet agreed to meet Zurita in Mexico City.
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Zurita
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Exhibition game to use 12 foot goals in Robinson gym
An exhibition basketball game between the Jayhawkers and Ensign Ware's V-12 quintet will be played Friday at 7:30 p.m. in Robinson gym. The V-12 team won the community league title this year. Kansas will field the same team as late this season except Barrington and Goehring, who are under navy restrictions. The public is invited and seats will be arranged in the gym. Visiting high school coaches attending the interscholastic meet will be guests.
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Razorbacks Schedule Eleven Games Next Season
Arkansas announces a 11 game 1944 football schedule with all but three games out of state. The outline lists October 21 Texas University in Little Rock and October 29 Texas Christian in Fort Worth among the tentative lineup, plus several road games and home contests including Rice homecoming in Fayetteville and Tulsa at Tulsa. Dr. F C Allen to speak at Kansas city area banquets tonight and tomorrow.
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Ark
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Texas University
Little Rock
Rice
Glen Rose
Parkers
Oklahoma A
Oklahoma City
Ctober
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Etober
Norman Navy Zoom
Baseball Exhibition Scores Reported By Associated Press
Yesterday's results show Chicago N defeating Chicago A 7 to 6, New York A beating Brooklyn N 11 to 8, and Army losing to New York N 8 in exhibition play.
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Soldier to Trial for Aiding Escape of German POWs
Pvt Dale H Maple a Harvard graduate 23 faces trial at Fort Leavenworth Kan on desertion and aiding two German POWs escape from Camp Hale Colo in February He could face death penalty Maple was captured in Mexico with POWs and both civilian and military counsel represent him Proceedings closed to the press until national security allows public updates
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Shoes and fingerprints spark Madison Ave theft arrest
Detective Charles Downer rounded up 80 players in a pool hall in New York and arrested five youths for breaking into a Madison Avenue store and stealing 100 pairs of shoes. In Scottsbluff Nebraska Frank Fillingham, after seven months in White Horse Yukon, met his draft board clerk at the depot and was allowed to return home before heading to Denver for preinduction exams and army acceptance.
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Cooperation plan to curb airfield area law issues
Topeka April 18 Civilian and military authorities at Great Bend will cooperate to handle law enforcement problems near the Great Bend army airfield Lt Col C J Frankforter director of internal security for the area reported after inspecting Great Bend following a complaint by Police Chief Houdy to Gov Schoeppel that soldiers were defying liquor laws Frankforter said it was not as bad as claimed and expressed thanks
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Andrew Schoeppel
Iiam
Nazis Round Up Workers in French Occupied Areas
Bern reports German occupation authorities in France intensified rounding up Americans for internment camps and extended work service liability in Germany to foreigners and already interned Frenchmen. The drive is said to target about 2,000 American World War I veterans who married French women.
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France
Germany
Bomb disposal in Italy manhandles a perilous grenade
Leaves From 3 War Correspondant's Notebook by George Tucker describes Lt Howard Johnson of Marlboro Road Freehold testing an unexploded hand grenade. The bomb disposal officer, wounded, explains safe handling while recounting wartime lessons from Britain on defusing fuses and avoiding sparks.
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Hal Boyle
Fifth
Italy
Howard Johnsan
Marlboro Road
Freehold
Flying Cross to Brink for 25 Missions Over Europe
Captain Eugene G. Brink United States Army Air Forces son of Mr and Mrs W J Brink Basehor Kan awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for extraordinary achievement as pilot of a B 17 on twenty five heavy bombardment missions over enemy occupied Continental Europe including Braunschweig Frankfurt and Rostock in 1944 He also received the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters Brink a 1937 Leavenworth High School graduate attended the University of Kansas before enlisting in 1942 He left the U S in 1943 and after his combat tour served as operations officer with his original squadron He married Lorna Wirth in 1943 and is living in Lawrence with sister Mrs Ralph W Bunn Major Bunn overseas for a year has visited with Brink in England recently.
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Charles Millard Wirth
Sioux City
Bronk
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Ralph W. Bunn
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Major Bunn
England
Kansas Miscellany Of Oddities And Family Vignettes
In Hutchinson and Pittsburg areas a court case ends with a coin flip over a $2 fine for a U turn. A Gypsum family Easter gift features prayer books and colored eggs and a six year old misreads epistle as epistle. Pittsburg residents report a spy hunt with torn scraps discovered during a local yarn.
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Kansan reporter bids farewell with candid column
A Kansas City columnist recounts a long newspaper career in Kansas, recalls a 1936 Alf Landon incident, and praises Kansas papers for quality and press freedom. He jokes about travel, reveals AP assignment, and stresses democracy hinges on a free press.
Final column farewell to readers ends with Joe De George
The columnist bids goodbye with playful apologies and notes he may exaggerate for effect. He tells readers he will be back someday, hands over to Joe De George, and confesses he is a little scared about the transition. The tone mixes humor and sentiment as a long-running piece ends.
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Fall Leaf Community Notes Highlight Local Visits and Events
Sunday dinner guests at Hanna Pfleger included Eugene Norris and Bille from Edgerton and M Sgt Otto Micnot with Mrs Miphot. Afternoon visitors were John Vitt of Hesper and Lawrence residents Marie Reed and Theresa Dyer. Donna Mae Canary visited Cedar Junction, while a family reunion honored M Sgt Otto Mignot and his wife at the Schellack home in Eudora.
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Bille
Edgerton
Otto Micnot
Miphot
John Vitt
Hesper
Marie Reed
Theresa Dyer
Lawrence
Harold Anderson
Donna Mae
Cedar Junction
Nash Canary
Fall Leaf School
Lewis Kirkman
Tom Davenport
Robert Schel~lack
Eudora
Otto Mignot
Local residents listed visiting and travel notes
Lawrence and Fall Leaf residents are shown visiting relatives, attending services, taking exams, and making trips to Kansas City and Denver. Names include Katherine McCaffery, Verne Jers, Jim Dyerend, Coby, Hanna Pfieger, Wayne Vitt, Esther Canary, and Mra. Otto Mignot among others. events feature church services, a county exam, and a funeral in Lawrence.
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M. Hudzon
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E. J.gebbart
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Vernie Mosser
Esther Canary
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Harold Simon
Otto Mignot
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Fort Lewis
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Rumsey Funch
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Excelsior Community Notes From Easter Weekend Visits
Mrs Glenn Flora attended the Range Ling club at Mrs Walter Harbour's home. Mrs Carl Schwarz spent Wednesday in Topeka. The annual school meeting will be held at the Excelsior schoolhouse Friday afternoon. Many residents visited Kansas City over the weekend. High school students enjoyed Easter vacation. Several families and guests from Ottawa Lawrence and Denver gathered for dinners and calls. No school Monday as teachers assisted examiners at Union Schoolhouse.
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Orvil Pohl
Irene Lynch
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Colo
Will Lynch
Will Peffly
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