Canasta leaders teeter in first major tourney
New York January 20 AP The Jacoby Crawford duo slipped to 6515 points in the nation’s first top flight canasta tournament after 20 games since Monday Their rivals Lightner Fry led 12 8 yet the title hinges on total points If Jacoby loses he pledges 5000 to Damon Runyon Cancer Fund and New York Heart Fund All tourney admissions go to charity The lead could vanish in one bad game with many points possible and final games set to start Monday at 2 pm with a playoff Sunday Jacoby is from Dallas Crawford from Philadelphia.
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New York
Oswald Jacoby
John R. Crawford
Theodore A. Lightner
Samuel Fry, Jr
Lightner
Fry
Jacoby
Damon Runyon
Dallas
Tex
Crawford
Philadelphia
Thumbtack Lodges Tight In Esophagus
Los Angeles January 20 A sheriff deputy Ralph Becker aged 34 faces delicate surgery to remove a thumbtack lodged in his esophagus. Becker reportedly swallowed the tack yesterday while hanging a calendar in his office.
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Los Angeles
Ralph Becker
Becker
Winning Contract in Notrump May Beat Four Spades
In a bridge puzzle with neither side vulnerable, North holds four spades with weak side suits. The recommended bid is three notrump to reach a nine trick game, avoiding a slam that cannot guarantee four spades. With two stoppers in every suit, six spades plus top hearts clubs ensures at least six tricks, while best defense yields at most four tricks.
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Associated Newspapers, Inc
Duplicate Bridge Winners Listed in Phoenix Club Event
Champions in the two-session open-pairs event are Dan Westerfield with Mrs. J. M. Foote at 61 percent, E. F. Freier with Mr. Freier at 58 percent, and Mrs. James Sharpe with William Jack of Glendale at 57.2 percent. In the second session last night, top pair was Mrs. Forte and Westerfield with 244 match points, followed by Mr. and Mrs. Freier at 230 and Miss Nadine Wilkins with W. C. Ketchum at 229. The Shepler Bridge Club game yesterday saw Edith Edwards and Dwight Neal at .622 and Claude Downs with J. Delbert Jones at .594.
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Dan Westerfield
J. M. Foote
E. F. Freier
James Sharpe
William Jack
Glendale
Nadine Wilkins
W. C. Ketchum
Shepler Bridge Club
Edith Edwards
Dwight Neal
Claude Downs
J. Delbert Jones
Bridge Games This Week at Local Clubs
Bridge games are scheduled this week including tomorrow at 7 45 p m at Shepler Bridge Club Garden Center Sunday at 12 30 p m the first session of the Phoenix open pairs championship sponsored by the Executive Committee of the American Contract Bridge League and Sunday 7 45 p m second session at Garden Center Bridge lessons at 11 a m and 7 30 p m each Thursday at the Young Women s Christian Association building 234 West Monroe Street Bridge and canasta every Monday at 8 p m in the Osborn Woman s Club 17 East Osborn Road
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Garden Center
Arizona Club
American Contract Bridge League
Young Women’s Christian Association
West
Monroe Street
Osborn Woman’s Club
East Osborn Road
Rabbi Humorist To Speak At Temple Beth Israel Here
Rabbi S Felix Mendelsohn of Chicago will address Temple Beth Israel at 8 15 p m Sunday on Can the Jew Still Laugh The talk is open to the public Mendelsohn author of three books on Jewish humor and currently writing a new one He noted humor sustains civilization and offsets civilization s inhibitions and quoted Freud on Jewish wit while recalling boyhood ties with Rabbi A L Krohn in Newark N J
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Temple Beth Israel
Chicago
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Mendelsohn
Ben Platt
North
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A. A. Brill
New York
Sigmund Freud
Isaac Goldberg
Freud
Rabbi Mendelsohn
University of Cincinnati
Hebrew Union College
Rabbi Krohn
Phoenix
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Ex-Stock Dealer Sought Nationally
Edwin Hawley former Phoenix securities dealer indicted by a federal grand jury on charges under the Securities Exchange Act. Posters circulated nationwide seek his whereabouts after he disappeared about a year ago having issued orders for stocks totalling thousands of dollars. Hawley received a stock selling permit in Arizona in March 1946 and is about 45 years old. a wartime worker at Goodyear’s Litchfield Park plant, he was active in local civic circles. Flynn says illegal stock transactions may total about $16,000.
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Phoenix
Federal Grand Jury
Frank E. Flynn
United States
Hawley
Arizona
Goodyear Corporation
Litchfield Park
Flynn
Young Democrats To Install Snyder President In South Phoenix
The Young Democratic Club of South Phoenix will install Robert Snyder at 2230 East Liberty Street as president at a Feb 8 meeting at South Mountain Inn. Snyder succeeds Jacob S. Alpert and is employed by Goldenetz Brothers Printing. Other officers to be installed include Cletrac Davis vice president Katheryn Smith secretary Mir iam Munro treasurer Velma La Macchia organization director J M McGuire Margaret Carver and Alpert publicity director.
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South Mountain Inn
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Goldenetz Brothers Printing Company
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Alpert
John W. Howell Rites Arranged
Funeral services for John W. Howell aged 72 who died at his home on East Campbell Avenue will be held at Memory Chapel of A. L. Moore and Sons Mortuary. Burial follows at Double Butte Cemetery in Tempe. A Phoenix resident for 32 years he worked as a mechanic and car body builder for Allison Steel and Rudolph Chevrolet until retiring in 1946. Born September 4 1877 in Atlanta Mississippi he is survived by wife Rhoda M and two sons William and Eddie of Phoenix.
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