FAST TRADING IN BASEBALL SEEN FOR WEEK
Trade winds swirl as major and minor league moguls head to Montreal for a week of shopping and swapping. Clubs seek pitchers and infielders, with Feller uncertainty shaping the market and Landis looming over the potential open auction.
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Paul Mickelson
New York
David Harum
Coney Island
Montreal
Sagacious
Bob Quinn
Boston Bees
Nabobs
Bob Feller
Kenesaw M. Landis
Cleveland Indians
Feller
New York Yankees
Tony Lazzeri
Detroit Tigers
Bengals
Rudy 8 York
White Sox
John Whitehead
Chicago
Zeke Bonura
Whitehead
Cleveland
Indians
Roy Hughes
Boston Red Sox
Tom Yanne
Wesley Ferrell
St. Louis Browns
Rogers Hornsby
Phoenix
Ariz
Bill
Chicago Cubs
Phil K. Wrigey
Wrigley Field
Lonnie Warneke
Jim “Ripper” Collins
Bud Parmelee
Leiber
Giants
Lew Riggs
Cincinnati
St. Louis Cardinals
Cards
Dizzy Dean
Cincinnati Reds
Chuck Dressen
Pittsburgh Pirates
Paul Waner
Pittsburgh
Pirates
van Lingle Mungo
Brooklyn
Cookie Lavagetto
Dodger
Quinn
Dodgers
Ladelphia
Phillies
Waterproof To Meet Choudrant For Northeast Louisiana Title
Waterproof Tigers, after beating Lake Providence and Columbia in Class B elimination, face Coach Harold Willis' Choudrant Aggies Friday at 2:30 pm at Tiger field. A capacity crowd is expected as both teams seek the northeast Louisiana championship and a spot in the state playoff.
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Waterproof
Waterproof Tigers
Lake Providence
Columbia
Harold Willis
Choudrant Aggies
Northeast Louisiana
Tiger Field
Choudrant
Pitt Awarded For Best Grid Team In East
New York sports writers named the University of Pittsburgh the best football team in the East for the past season, with Pennsylvania close behind and honorable mention. Dartmouth Yale and Fordham received consideration in final judging.
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New York
University of Pittsburgh
August V. Lambertoni
Pennsylvania
Dartmouth
Yale
Fordham
Grayson to Meet Columbia Next Thursday for Parish Title
Grayson and Columbia will play Thursday in Columbia for parish honors after a long delay. Grayson, unbeaten before playoffs, seeks to halt Columbia’s three year winning streak in a tense parish championship game.
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Grayson
Columbia
Blue Warriors
Monroe Civic Music seeks 800 members for big season
Monroe organizers launch a membership drive to fund a major season of concerts under the Civic Music association. E. C. Gibson presides as officers and directors are introduced. Headquarters open at the Virginia hotel with report nights set and a Saturday deadline for joining.
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Monroe
A «x
Civic Music Association
Virginia
E. C. Gibson
Association
S. A. Caldwell
Northeast Center
Fred Williamson
World and
News- Star
W. D. H. Rodriguez
Finance and Public Utilities
Eileen Mackinnon
Florence Ziegler
Dallas Goss
Goss
E. F. Hayward
Louis Hallum
F. K. Hirsch
A. B. Clarkson
H. M. James
Emer Slagle
George Moffett
Clara Hall
Smith Colvin
Kate Allison
Dean Selig
V. S. Garnett
S. A. Moss
Myrtle Rodgers
L. V. Tarver
Sam Rubin
Lowery Jefferson
J. C. Calhoun
W. D. Cotton
Professor Haskins
Albert Hearne
Ruston
Manning
Roberts
Calhoun
Wrestling Results From Last Night Across Several Cities
In New York Dean Detton defeated Chief Sanooke in 14:23. Lancaster saw Dave Levin beat Ted Key in 26:20. Atlantic City hosted a double count out draw between Ed Meske and Joe Cox at 36:29. Wilmington had Cliff Olsen win two straight falls over John Kazan. Worcester featured Steve Casey defeating Charley Strack in two straight falls. Portland saw Johnny Savanna defeat Dick Costello in two out of three falls.
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New York
Dean Detton
Salt Lake City
Chief Sanooke
North Carolina
Lancaster
Dave Levin
Brooklyn
Ted Key
Los Angeles
Atlantic City
N. J
Ed Meske
Akron
Joe Cox
Indianapolis
Drew
Wilmington
Del
Cliff Olsen
Minneapolis
John Kazan
Canada
Worcester
Mass
Steve (Crusher) Casey
Ireland
Charley Strack
Oklahoma
Portland
Johnny Savanna
Quincy
Dick Costello
Halifax
N. S
East Team for Rose Bowl Not Yet Selected
Pasadena observers and university officials remain uncertain who will face Washington in the Rose Bowl. Rumors linked LSU Alabama or Pittsburgh, but UW AD Ray Eckmann will confer with Stanford and the Rose Bowl committee before any formal announcement.
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Pasadena
Calif
University of Washington
Seattle
Huskies
Louisiana State
Alabama
Pittsburgh
Ray Eckmann
Tournament of Roses
Stanford
Stanford Indians
West
Washington Huskies
C. Hal Reynolds
Tournament of Roses Association
Maroon Squad Keeps Weathered Practice Indoors
In State College Mississippi the Maroon football squad practiced indoors due to heavy rain. Major Sasse plans to resume field drills Tuesday aiming for the Florida game in Gainesville next Saturday. Only two real work days remain before Thursday departure with a light session Friday in Gainesville.
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State College
Miss
Maroons
Sasse
Florida
Gainesville
Carl Hinkle Elected Captain For Vanderbilt Football
Carl Hinkle, 19, son of a Methodist minister, was elected 1937 captain of the Vanderbilt Commodores by acclamation at the football banquet. Buford Baby Ray was named alternate captain as Hinkle succeeds Dick Plasman and played full 60 minutes in Vanderbilt’s toughest games. Hinkle’s home is Nashville.
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Nashville
Tenn
Carl Hinkle
Vanderbilt Commodores
Buford
Baby
Fights Last Night In Boxing Across Five Cities
Results from Associated Press bouts show Bobby Pacho outpointing Ray Napoli in New York. Johnny Stevens stopped Carlos Garcia in Louisville. Buddy Knox defeated Dan Hassett in Dayton. Harry Thomas beat Charley Belanger in Chicago. Cocoa Kid outpointed Caspe Lakova in Holyoke.
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Associated Press
New York
Bobby Pacho
Los Angeles
Ray Napolitano
Louisville
Johnny Stevens
Cincinnati
Carlos Garcia
Mexico
Dayton
Buddy Knox
Dan Hassett
Philadelphia
Chicago
Harry Thomas
Eagle Bend
Minn
Charley Belanger
Winnipeg
Can
Holyoke
Mass
Cocoa Kid
New Haven
Conn
Caspe, Lakova
Brooklyn
LSU Tulane Film At Paramount Today
Special shots of the LSU Tulane football game will be shown at the Paramount theater today and tomorrow. Manager Gordon announced yesterday. The film includes views of the crowd at Tiger Stadium and the Tigers 33 to 0 victory.
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Paramount Theater
Gordon
Tiger Stadium
Tigers
New Deal Platform Highlights Economic and Housing Promises
The Washington platform pledges action on crop insurance and tenancy reduction, a stable food supply, and a subsidized housing program to provide adequate homes for those in need. It endorses civil service for continuing positions, WPA continuity, rural electrification, a balanced budget, and anti monopoly laws while signaling more on the reorganization of economic power.
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Roosevelt
Wagner
Congress
NEA Service, Inc
Community Christmas Lighting Contest Opens in Ouachita Parish
Mrs Elmer Richards president of the Monroe Garden club announced a lighting plan sponsored by the Garden club Chamber of Commerce and the Morning World and News Star. Entries must be submitted by December 21 with displays staying lit until January 1. All households and businesses in Ouachita parish may enter the contest.
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Chamber of Commerce
Elmer Richards
Monroe Garden Club
The
Garden Club
Morning World and
News-Star
Ouachita Parish
Boiling Point Wins Shreveport Purse Over My Blaze
Outsider Boiling Point defeated the favorite My Blaze in a mile race at the Shreveport fair grounds track. Rutland driven by W. E. Snyder finished strong from far back to threaten for the photo finish. Boiling Point paid $14.20 on a $2 ticket.
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New Orleans
Boiling Point
My Blaze
Shreveport
Fair Grounds Track
W. E. Snyder
Rutland
Rain Delays Ole Miss Grid Drill Before Tennessee Game
Rain slowed Mississippi football practice at University, as coach Ed Walker shifted from blocking work to skull sessions. With a looming clash against Tennessee, Walker warned weather would force changes to the schedule and may favor heavy plodding styles and players Big Hopes and Dave Bernard in the open attack.
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University
Miss
Mississippi
University of Tennessee
Ed Walker
Vols
Dave Bernard
Brown Quint Opens Season Against Hodge
The Brown Paper mill basketball squad in the Missouri Valley A. A. U. league will start the season with a warm up game versus Hodge Paper mill Wednesday night. Theo Alford, ex Baylor star, arrives for the lineup and may appear. Expected starters include Ed Shaver Frank Bryski Gene Demmary Clyde Evans or Clarence Tullos and Phillips. New backboards and a scoreboard have been installed at the Brown gym.
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Brown Paper Mill
Missouri Valley A. A. U
Hodge Paper Mill
Cary Phillips
Twin Cities
Theo Alford
Baylor University
Brown
Alford
Phillips
Hodge
Baylor
Ed Shaver
Frank Bryski
Big Ten
Gene Demmary
Butler University
Clyde Evans
Clarence Tullos
Demmary
Brownies
Jackson Parish
Roosevelt Hosts Argentine Leaders on Inter American Meet Visit
President Roosevelt planned a packed day in Buenos Aires with sight seeing and official receptions. Vice President Roca and Carlos Noel would present a congressional resolution praising him for proposing the inter American meeting. President Justo to host a dinner and confer with delegates as talks begin Thursday under a steering committee of the 21 delegations. Cordell Hull and Dr. Saavedra Lamas to speak. Hull’s neutrality treaty plan aims to bind American nations to wartime non assistance.
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Carlos Saavedra Lamas
Roosevelt
United States
Julio Argentino Roca
Senate
Carlos Noel
Chamber of Deputies
Agustin Justo
Argentina
Justo
Cordell Hull
Saavedra Lamas
Hull
Campaign to Fight Tuberculosis Seals Backing Envelopes
A campaign meeting led by A. B. Clarkson urged immediate Christmas seal donations. Speakers Dr. S. A. Caldwell and G. B. Cooley emphasized placing seals on all mail, with twenty workers joining in solicitation after breakfast.
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A. B. Clarkson
S. A
Charitable plea highlights Good Fellows fund drive
A reader letter requests warm clothing toys and fruit for Christmas and mentions a 23 year old sister seeking aid. The missive, soon to be turned in to the Good Fellows Fund committee, underscores widespread need and urges donations to the World and News-Star charity drive.
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M. E
Good Fellows Fund
World and News-Star
North Second Street
State considers joining unemployment aid program
A Pennsylvania special session opens in Harrisburg to decide joining 16 states approved by the security board for unemployment benefits tax credit. The model bill proposes half wage per week, with $15 max and $5 min, two week waiting, 13 weeks of work required, and job placement options through public offices.
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Pennsylvania
Treasury
Harrisburg
Security Board
Washington
Regulations for Louisiana unemployment program outlined
Baton Rouge officials announced rules for administering Louisiana unemployment compensation after a conference with employers. The state act covers eight or more workers for 20 weeks in the past two years, with a nine tenths of one percent payroll tax due January 15, 1936 and payable by January 31 for credit against the federal levy. Employers may join voluntarily and pension payments are tax exempt.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
B. W. Cason
Cason
United States Budget Deficit and Emergency Spending Update
Through November 27 this year the deficit reached 1.23 billion dollars with emergency expenditures at 1.146 billion. Treasury sources said future reductions hinge on restricting emergency activities while regular government outlays may rise due to defense social security and other costs.
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Treasury
Womack Recaptured After Louisiana Prison Escape
Jack Womack, 33, who had been sent to the Ouachita parish penitentiary last May 14 and escaped from the penitentiary farm last Saturday, was captured again Tuesday after being arrested Monday in a cave three miles from the farm. Accompanied by Truly Fortenberry, 21, who joined the escape, Womack faces a return to custody while Fortenberry, held for breaking and entering, also awaits formal processing. Womack is serving five years for kidnapping Bud Osborn, a Monroe taxicab driver, and forcing Osborn to take him to Richland parish.
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Jack Womack
State Penitentiary
Ouachita Parish
Womack
Fortenberry
Penitentiary
Washington Parish
Bud Osborn
Monroe
Osborn
Richland Parish
Drunkenness case sparks oil remedy debate in court
Dr Ralph Hendrick public health chief refuses to link department with oil remedy. Assistant counsel Conyard pushes for legal protection while prisoners sign waivers. Dr Countryman notes oil dose risks but would prefer jail. Justice Yuse warns a guilty woman to avoid return or face jail or ail.
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Ralph Hendrick
Hendricks
Louis W. Conyard
C. W. Countryman
Justice Yuse
Governor-elect backs forced medical cures for drunkenness
Barzilla W. Clark, Idaho governor-elect, urged courts to compel intoxication offenders to undergo medical cures. He argued fines and jails failed to curb drinking and cited cure programs costing 125 to 200 dollars as successful examples in Spokane and Salt Lake City.
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Boise
Idaho
Barzilla W. Clark
Clark
Spokane
Wash
Salt Lake City
Four Alarm Fire Damages Bok Vocational School in Philadelphia
A four alarm blaze severely damages the half completed Edward W. Bok Vocational School in Philadelphia as firefighters battle the stubborn flames. Nathaniel Wood, a Woodville, New York resident described as a nature prophet, predicts an easy winter based on early leaf fall. Some New Jersey areas report record cold with zero temperatures in parts of the state.
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Philadelphia
Edward W. Bok
Nathaniel Wood
Woodville
N. Y
New Jersey
New England Night Sees Record Cold For December
Newport Vermont reports a 16 degree below zero morning as thermometers register a record cold for early December near the Canadian border. Old residents say it may be a regional record for this time of year.
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Newport
Boy longs for home as illness limits sleep and speech
Prattiling 107 shows improved sleep and clearer conversation. Emmie twice leaves bed to seek home, telling nurses she wants her mother and father. He remains unaware his mother is ill and his father cannot visit, finding comfort only in books toys and Roscoe.
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Emmie
Roscoe
Daddy
Long range programs underway with 1937 38 outlay rise
The document notes long range programs already under way and anticipates increased outlays in 1937 38. It highlights expected spending growth and fiscal planning measures.
Fire Displaces 450 Workers as Mill Smolders
Expect Mill factory and veneer mill remain smouldering this morning. Fire puts over 450 veneer mill and box factory workers out of work while officials await Mr Schatz's decision on next steps. Merchants fear a loss of about $3,000 weekly payroll as holidays approach.
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Schatz
Tallulah
Million Dollar Toll From Fires Across Four States
Fires across four southern states caused estimated losses approaching one million dollars. Tallulah Louisiana suffered a veneer plant and box factory destruction, while Portsmouth Virginia saw a bus and multiple buildings burn with about 150 thousand dollars in damage. Arlington Virginia reported two deaths as four homes were razed, and Cartersville Georgia endured a mineral grinding plant fire costing 100 thousand dollars. Bogalusa Louisiana's paper bag factory burned for about 100 thousand, Cookeville Tennessee lost 25 thousand at an ice plant, and Dickinson Tennessee reported 19 thousand in a planing mill blaze. A Sunday cotton warehouse and compress blaze at Aberdeen Mississippi threatened to exceed 600 thousand.
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Associated Press
Tallulah
Portsmouth
Arlington
Cartersville
Bogalusa
Cookeville
Tenn
Dickson
Aberdeen
Miss
Remembering Captain George W. McCranie Publisher and Family
Captain George W. McCranie founder and publisher of the Ouachita Telegraph died from internal injuries and shock. His son George W. McCranie Jr. worked at Monroe News and News-Star, later oil and gas leases. served in Company B First Louisiana Volunteers and Spanish War veterans group. Don McCranie of Ouachita parish was his nephew. extended family noted in obituary.
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Captain McCranie
Don McCranie
Ouachita Parish
Jonesboro Road
John Brecard
J. D. Prichard
J. M Myatt
George W. McCranie
George W., Jr
Ouachita Telegraph
McCranie
George, Jr
Monroe News
The
News- Star
Jackson
Miss
Comepany B
First Louisiana Volunteers
Thompson Wood Lee Post
United Spanish War Veterans
Police chase ends as suspects flee after failed gas station robbery
A dark confrontation unfolds as officers exchange shots with a Negro fleeing through a ditch and bayou toward Congo street while two armed suspects attempt a Pennsylvania Motor Oil filling station robbery. Newsom and his wife witness the alarm and the robbers flee empty handed.
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Cummings
Ham
Young's Bayou
Congo Street
Pennsylvania Motor Oil Company
E. J. Newsom
Newsom
Santa Clara University Founded By Mission Fathers 1777
The University of Santa Clara traces its origins to 1777 when mission fathers established the school. The founding marks a key moment in regional education and religious missions history.
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University of Santa
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