Legendary prankster era stars of early baseball
The author recalls famed players like Crazy Schmidt Germany Schaefer Rube Waddell Ping Bodie and Dizzy Dean. Anecdotes span unusual pitching habits rubber boots umbrella and a parrot teaching jokes. Dean’s wit and pranks stand out amid memories of lively showmen and notable confrontations.
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al Schacht
Crazy Schmidt
Cincinnati
Arlie Latham
Rube Waddell
Tacks Parrott
Ping Bodie
Germany Schaefer
Nick Altrock
Sherry Magee
O’neil
Cardinals
Dizzy Dean
Schmidt
Hans Wagner
Detroit
Schaefer
Cleveland
Tommy Connolly
Germany
Connnolly
Connolly
League
Waddell
Athletics
Mockingbird
Yankees
Ping
Schacht
Dizzy
Florida
Dean
Jimmy Wilson
Jimmy
Bradenton
Sam Breadon
St. Louis
Sam
Cardinal
Cubs
Diz
U S Writes Finis to Spy Chapter in N Y Bookshop
Washington reports that Westermann’s Bookshop in Manhattan closed after 15 years as a German military information source for the Nazis. The Treasury traced bonuses to Ernest Eisele and German stockholders, tied to the Scherl publishing group linked to Hugenberg Goebbels. Indictments for failure to register as alien agents were filed in DC.
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Washington
D. C
B. Westermann
Manhattan
Treasury
Associated Press
Germany
United States
Wilhelmstrasse
Westermann
Ernest Eisele
Eisele
Westermann’s
Scherl Publishing Company
Scherl Company
Alfred Hugenberg
Krupp
Hitler
Joseph Goebbels
Scherz
Aero Digest
Coast Artillery Journal
Department of Justice
District of Columbia
Home From War Seaman Faces New Gunfire In LA
Seaman six times wounded in two year war returns to Los Angeles to find gunfire in the streets. His 18 year old bride is wounded by a bandit's bullet while a masked robber steals their $100 honeymoon fund. Nolan Truman Marks, 19, fights the assailant. his wife is hospitalized with a knee injury after the shooting.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Nolan Truman Marks
Marks
Remote radio saves fisherman by closing jaw at sea
In New Orleans a coast guard medical officer remotely reset a fisherman’s jaw on a small boat 200 miles offshore. Radio operator Guy Delp at a remote Alaskan base relayed each motion to Lt. Harry Kaack, who directed Lt. Edward Nugent to perform the procedure. The message returned that the man was now okay.
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New Orleans
Coast Guard
Guy B. Delp
J. G
Harry F. Kaack
Clinton
Iowa
Kaack
Edward Nugent
Bad Axe
Mich
Delp
O. K
Midnight ham thief apologizes after pilfering two slices
A nighttime burglar at William F. Mullis grocery store in Savannah took two slices of ham and left 85 cents on the counter with a note stating I would not have done this but I was meat hungry. The note was signed A Good Friend.
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Savannah
William F. Mullis
Mullis
Road of Germans Will Be a Long and Hard One
A column argues Germany remains a disorganized mass under Allied occupation and predicts a long road to reeducation, four occupying powers, and the risk of divergent postwar ideologies shaping German life and law. It questions when civilian authority may replace military control and how a unified Germany can emerge.
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Union
Germany
G.I. Joes
Hitler
G.I
G.i.joes
Four Nations
Cost of Government to Leap Says Brookings Survey
The Brookings Institution reports postwar government costs will be 2.5 to 3 times the 1940 level. The study estimates federal, state, and local expenditures will total about double the prewar amount.
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Washington
Brookings Institution
One Man Massacre Clears Key Hill in Okinawa
Pfc. Clarence B. Craft of Santa Ana California led a solo assault on a 450 foot hill in Okinawa breaking a Japanese defense. He killed about 30 enemy soldiers in 10 to 15 minutes and helped unlock a stalled sector for the 96th infantry division. Craft charged trenches tossed grenades fired with a Garand and sealed a cave with a demolition charge. Fifty eight enemy dead and heavy weapons captured marked the outcome while two of his comrades were wounded.
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Okinawa
Clarence B. Craft
Santa Ana
Calif
Craft
96Th
Felons Escape Plot Foiled by Boy in Hole Near Prison
In Pittsburgh a five year old named George Gregor stumbled into a hole outside the Western penitentiary wall after convicts dug a 32 foot tunnel from the prison laundry to two feet from the surface. Warden Stanley P. Ashe said unnamed prisoners used improvised picks and shovels. The boy's shout alerted a guard and thwarted the escape plan.
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Pittsburgh
George Gregor
Western Penitentiary
Stanley P. Ashe
Ashe
FIDO Aids RAF Flights by Burning Fog In World War II
London reports that FIDO Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operations aided the RAF by burning gasoline to dissipate fog, enabling bomber landings. Since its operational use began in November 1943, it helped over 2,500 Allied planes land safely.
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Fido
RAF
London
Air Force
Pickpocket Confession Foiled By Driver Theft Jape
Boston taxi driver Edward Sobol picked up a fare near the municipal courthouse. After a short ride the passenger asked for a cigarette and handed over a half empty sack, admitting he had just been convicted of pickpocketing and wanted to prove he hadn't lost his touch.
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Boston
Edward Sobol
Jealousy of House Sends Husband to Penitentiary
Spokane column reports John McWhorter 43 pleaded guilty to second degree arson after confessing his wife loved the house more than him. He admitted setting fire to the dwelling and received a maximum ten year sentence in the penitentiary.
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Spokane
Wash
John McWhorter
McWhorter
Calling Young Women for U S Marine Corps Women’s Reserve
Contingents of Marine Corps Women Reservists have been shipped to Hawaii and are on the job aiding the Pacific war effort. Captain Katherine B. Persons in Chicago announces new berths for patriotic young women to wear the globe, anchor and eagle in the Marine Corps Women’s Reserve. Applicants must be citizens 20 to 36, with two years of schooling, at least 5 feet tall, in sound health. Married women may apply. those with children under 18 cannot be enlisted. wives of enlisted Marines are eligible.
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Marine Corps
Hawaii
Katherine B. Persons
Marine Corps Women’s Reserve
Plymouth Court
Chicago
Pacific
Captain Persons
Reconditioning Elephants Boosts Market Value
Reconditioned elephants for sale receive cosmetic fixes from head to toe. Body scars from ill fitting howdahs are dyed over, chalk designs hide injuries, foot cracks filled with putty, and missing toes glued back on. Proper toe count remains crucial to price.
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N. Y
Wright . Patterson
America
Truman
Council of Uncio
Edward R. Stettinius
Massachusetts
Boy
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
South Wells St
U.S. Maine Corps
W. R
175Th Infantry
B. F. Goodrich
Bfgoodrich
Garand Sprinkler
Post
Garand Sales CO
West Grand Boulevard
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