Predictions for 1946 sports champions across leagues
The author forecasts 1946 race outcomes across baseball football boxing and more. Yankees and Cardinals lead the major leagues with Boston and St Louis rivals. Army dominates college football with Notre Dame and Alabama as close contenders. Boxing highlights Louis and Robinson as top heavyweights welterweights, Beau Jack and Graziano as prominent contenders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Urse
Joe McCarthy
Yankees
Red Sox
Tigers
St. Louis Cardinals
Cubs
Dodgers
Giants
Ted Williams
Bobby Doerr
Tex Hughson
Wakefield
Greenberg
Newhouser
Trout
Trucks
Sam Breadon
Dickey
Gordon
DiMaggio
Rizzuto
Johnson
George Cohan
Cardinals
Red Blaik
Army
Blanchard
Davis
Tucker
McWilliams
Coulter
Foldberg
Poole
Fuson
Oklahoma A
Indiana
Alabama
Notre Dame
Pennsylvania
South
Frank Thomas
Bo McMillin
Michigan
Fritz Crisler
St. Mary’s
Navy
Frank Leahy
Midwest
Pacific
Jimmy Phelan
Herman Wedemeyer
Delphic Oracle
Joe Louis
Sugar Robinson
Beau Jack
Graziano
Woman Ends Life Over Unmet 1945 New Year Resolution
Wanda E. Williams of Wilmington California hanged herself in the family garage after a year that failed to bring happiness. In an eight page note to her mother she described a bargain with fate and expressed disappointment over a lost romance with Cpl Ball Moser, a Marine veteran.
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Wilmington
Calif
Wanda E. Williams
Miss Williams
United Press
Mildred Johnstone
Carlton Johnstone
Wanda
Johnstone
Bill
Cpl. Ball Moser
Pacific
Jap Med Corps Used Prisoners as Bubonic Plague Guinea Pigs
Communist sources claim Japanese medical units inoculated American and Chinese prisoners with bubonic plague at Harbin and Mukden in Manchuria as part of biological warfare. The operations allegedly targeted prisoners and were linked to Lt Gen Shiro Ishii and the Ishii institute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Harbin
Mukden
Manchuria
Yoshio Shiga
Red Flag
Shiro Ishii
Jap Surgeon's Corps
Ishii Institute
Rabid Jap Ambassador Surrenders in Tokyo Prison
Toshio Shiratori 1939-40 ambassador to Italy who claimed Japan's aim was to drive whites from Asia surrendered at Sugamo prison. Described as the "most rabid" militarist in MacArthur's arrest order, he was taken into custody by Sgt. Charles W. Kline to await war crimes trial. He carried three suitcases and two bedding bundles into his cell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokio
Toshio Shiratori
Italy
Japan
Asia
Sugamo
Shiratori
MacArthur
Charles W. Kline
Gary
Ind
Suit Filed Over Birth Mistake Claiming $100000
Mrs Alta Jacobs Hull of Checotah Oklahoma filed a $100000 suit claiming she was told for ten days in a hospital she had given birth to a boy but later found the infant was a girl Her husband Charles Hull a soldier stationed in Germany was told of a boy and confirmation came by cable until the misidentification was discovered upon first care of the child.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muskogee
Okla
Alta Jacobs Hull
Checotah
World food distribution and farm prosperity in postwar era
A Western Newspaper Union piece argues for an organized world distribution system to assure steady markets for American farm goods. It warns against centralization and inflation, urging practical action by major parties and noting the cost of government in the coming fiscal year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Food and Agriculture Organization
FAO
Quebec
Bretton Woods
China
Japan
India
Near East
Europe
America
Russia
Germany
Italy
Caveman Foiled in Barclay’s Bank Robbery Attempt
A middle aged man tried to rob a Barclay's branch in Sutton England using a club with nails. He leaped the counter and demanded money but was quickly disarmed by the cashier chief clerk and customers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sutton
England
Barclay’s Bank
Man Misses Own Funeral After Reading His Obituary
Charles Dun can, 65, of Galesburg Illinois, survived a death scare after learning he was reported dead in a newspaper obituary for David Duncan, 88, who died New Year’s Day. Charles had not died and soon left St. Mary’s hospital, while Duncan’s family learned of the mix up two days later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galesburg
Ill
Charles Duncan
St. Mary’s Hospital
David Duncan
Oneida
Melvin
Charles
Melvin Duncan
Charley
Worker Survives Five Hours Buried After Ditch Cave-In
Leavenworth Kansas res cue saved Hugh Cummings 33 during a cave in that killed another worker. An eight inch sewer pipe kept him breathing as earth buried him ten feet deep for five hours. he remained conscious but could not communicate until rescuers reached him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leavenworth
Kans
Hugh Cummings
Cummings
Man Swallows Gold Pellets to Evade Duty in Colombo
In Colombo Ceylon K Vallipuram arrived from India with 29 gold pellets. Customs men searched him he swallowed the pellets to avoid duty. He was taken to Colombo General Hospital where X ray showed the pellets. Officials recovered the gold valued at about 800 dollars according to jewelers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colombo
Ceylon
K. Vallipurnam
India
Vallipuram
Colombo General Hospital
Good Samaritan Turns Bandit in Fort Worth Robbery
Mrs. Norman Cohen of Altus Oklahoma stopped by a flat tire on a highway when a helpful motorist assisted. After changing the tire the stranger, who had pretended to aid her, produced a knife and robbed her of two diamond rings and a wrist watch in Fort Worth Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Texas
Norman Cohen
Altus
Okla
Sewing Circle Patterns for Glamorous Blouses
Pattern No. 8964 offers youthful round neck or V neck blouses with gathered, cap, short or three quarter sleeves. All buttons down the back. Sizes 12 through 42 include a size 14 option with gathered sleeve choice.
Shadow Cast by Sound Sparks Scientific Curiosity
A Collier's observation notes that approaching sound can produce a visible shadow effect. In England a man on a hill saw a long, narrow shadow rush across a valley before a distant powder magazine explosion sent a dense compression wave, its shadow cast by sunlight as the blast occurred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Collier’s
England
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