Eleventh Olympiad Launched Amid Nazi Spectacle in Berlin
Berlin August 1 Adolf Hitler opened the 11th Olympiad before about 105000 at the stadium. Nearly 4800 athletes from 50 nations took the oath as flags and salutes sparked political undercurrents. The United States, large in delegation, faced a mixed reception with debates over salutations and national symbols.
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Alan Gould
Associated Press
Berlin
United States
Rome
Horst Wessel
Germany
Bulgaria
Iceland
India
Hitler
Great Britain
Canada
Bermuda
New
Baseballs Jig Sextet Sees Medwick Topping NL Batting Lead
Ducky Medwick of the Cardinals regained the National League batting lead from rookie teammate Johnny Mize by collecting two hits in four at bats to raise his average to .261. Mize dropped to second at .339 after going hitless in four chances. In the American League, Lou Gehrig moved into sole possession of the top spot with a 0.380 average after one hit in four at bats, while Earl Averill fell to second with a .379 mark. Also, 62 runners signed for the 1936 Olympic 100-meter dash, the largest entry list for any track event, and the marathon followed with 55 entrants.
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Associated Press
Ducky Medwick
Cardinals
Johnny Mize
Mize
Lou Gehrig
Yankees
Early Averill
Indians
Strongest 1936 Olympic track squad faces Berlin tests
The 1936 Olympicean squad is the strongest yet, but praise meets caution as long travel and unfamiliar climate may sap form in Berlin. Field event marks fell short from expectations, while Britons led by Wooderson and Lovelock loom as main threats in the 1500, with Lash and Zabala in distance and marathon fields. The piece stresses uncertainty of form and the need to perform under Olympic conditions.
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Berlin
Gordon Dunn
Big Jack Torrance
Louisiana
England
John Bull
Stanley Wooderson
Wooderson
Jack Lovelock
Princeton
Lovelock
Cunningham
Venzke
Bonthron
Palmer Stadium
Luigi Beccali
Italy
Don Lash
Lash
America
Juan Carlos Zabala
Los Angeles
Lillybrook Defeats Helen In Exhibition By Eight-Run Rally
Lillybrook of Raleigh County B League beat Helen of the UMIWA circuit 6 to 2 in an exhibition game played yesterday. Three runs in the eighth inning clinched for the Stonecoal team. Line scores show Helen 160 001 090 for 25 hits four, Lillybrook 200 000 3x for six runs two. J. Blake, Jarreit and Lewis, G. McGraw and V. Keaton credited in the box score.
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Lillybrook
Raleigh County
Helen
Umiwa
Stonecoal
J. Blake
Jarreit
Lewis
G. McGraw
V. Keaton
Cline Family Hosts Visitors From Huntington and Local Star Joe Medwick
Mr. and Mrs. William Mott and children from Huntington visit the Cline home. Joe Medwick of the St. Louis Cardinals earned letters in baseball, basketball, football, track, and tennis while a student at Carteret High School in New Jersey.
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William Mott
Charles
James
William Henry
Huntington
J. H. Cline
Joe Medwick
St. Louis Cardinals
Carteret
N. J.) High School
Second County League All Star Game Set For Aug. 8
The second Raleigh county baseball league all star game will be played at R. M. M. I. park at 3 p m on Saturday August 8 with selected players from A and B divisions. Managers meetings in Beckley yielded a roster including pitchers from Crab Orchard Lillybrook Winding Gulf and Glen White among others and top positions in infield and outfield.
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Raleigh County Baseball League
R. M M. I. Park
Beckley
Tudor
Crab Orchard
Plasters
Lillybrook
Holston
B. Wooton
H. Webb
Woodbay
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Chambers
S. Mathias
Glen White
Glen Rogers
Jarvis
Scarbro
Shumate
Mullens
Vidovich
Sullivan
Reid
G. McGraw
Lacy
Winding Gulf
Mehler
Glen “Whites
Lipari
Ameagie
Davies
Tams
Church
Paynter
Earl Wheley
Shelor
A. D'Antoni
Thompson
Alternales
G. Cafego
Radcliff
Hughes
Ameagile
Cavaliers Beat Camp Rowan 15 1 in Union yesterday
Cavaliers defeated Camp Rowan 15 to 1 at Union yesterday morning and will compete this weekend for the second-division Lewisburg sector CCC camps baseball championship. Shumate allowed five scattered hits and struck out 10. Haynes yielded 13 singles and six strikeouts. Opie May led in hitting with four of five, including a double. Saturday, Cavaliers travel to Clifftop to face Camp Beaver. The three clubs had tied for first in the division. the winner advances to meet Camp Cranberry for the sector title, with the victor advancing to Charleston for state elimination.
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Camp Raleigh Cavaliers
Camp Rowan
Union
Lewisburg
CCC
Shumate
Haynes
Opie May
Shady Spring Club
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Bailey
Union Club
Cavaliers
Camp Beaver
Camp Cranberry
Richwood
Iful
Charleston
Hinton Awaits Hulme Tennis Tourney
Hinton prepares for the Hulme tennis tournament set to run from Sunday August 16 through August 23 on local courts. The event, the season highlight, awards the Hulme trophy to the winner for one year with runner-up and consolation prizes planned. J E Faulconer notes a historically strong entry list.
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Hinton
Becket Beckley Music Tops Softball Standings
Beckley Music leads the local softball standings after a disrupted week. Gulf suffered a disastrous span as Beckley Hardware and Pureoil split wins and Woodrow Wilson losses affected the pennant race. Glen White earned two wins, while Beckley Hardware and Gulf sit tied for third. Purcei dropped further after a 10 to 4 loss to Beckley Hardware at Cranberry.
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Stanford
Beckley Hardware
Puredi
Woodrow Wilson
Beckley Music
Glen White
Bemeco
Cranberry
Purceil
Kitts
Adams
Gill
Davies
Reitz
Beckley Howe
Purcoil
Thomas
Parlis
Utilities
Stanaford
Fairgrounds
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Company H to take part in mimic battle
Sixty four shouting and laughing guardsmen of Company H 150th Infantry left Beckley for Fort Knox to join 10000 others in a 15 day mock war. The Blue army will advance toward the Tennessee border then withdraw to guard an imaginary bridge as Brown and Reds ally in the northeast. The unit will return to civilian jobs after the war games. Captain Albert Holmes led Company H until Thurmond where Captain E M Hardesty assumed command of the train. Lieutenant D D Holliday is second in command. Guardsmen from Mount Hope, Ronceverte, and St Albans will join.
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Thurmond
Mount Hope
Ronceverte
Company P
150Th Infantry
St. Albans
Ohio River
War Department
Fort Knox
Tennessee
Ohio
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Albert Holmes
E. McK. Hardesty
D. D. Holliday
150Th
Beckley
Knox
Leslie E. Hammack
James H. Blair
Thomas S. Christian
Joe C. Johnson
Joby L. Martin
Starnes A. Rose
Orval. C. Thompson
William R. Wills
Corporais Key
Beccali Favored To Win Berlin Olympic 1500 Meter Title
Luigi Beccali, Italy, appears the likely 1500 meters champion at Berlin, with coach Boyd Comstock predicting another victory. Beccali's intense regimen includes two daily workouts and as many as 15 fast 800 meter runs daily, as rivals Cunningham and Venzke loom. Comstock says Beccali trains harder than any athlete in the Olympic village.
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Associated Press
Berlin
America
England
New Zealand
Luigi Beccali
Halian
Los Angeles
Boyd Comstock
Becceli
Glenn Cunningham
Kansas Iron Horse
Gene Venzke
Pennsylvania
Comstock
Becleali
Jack Lovelace
Stanley Wooderson
Great Britain
Olympic Village
Union church services conclude tonight
The final meeting of a series of Union church services will be held at 8 p.m. tonight at the Presbyterian church with Rev. Ross Culpepper of Heber Street Methodist delivering a sermon titled Gods Call, Mans Answer. Participants include Presbyterian, Christian, Methodist Episcopal, Methodist Temple, and Episcopal congregations.
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Presbyterian Church
Ross Culpepper
Heber Street Methodist Church
Presbyterian
Christian
Methodist Episcopal
Methodist Temple
Episcopal
Wanda Hurley Dies at Four Months in Green Cove Funeral
Funeral services will be held in Green Cove Virginia this afternoon for Wanda Lee Hurley four months old daughter of Mr and Mrs E P Hurley of Bigstick. She died last night in a local hospital of cholera infantum burial at Rose Funeral Home. Survived by parents six brothers and sisters.
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Green Cove
Wanda Lee Hurley
E. P. Hurley
Bigstick
Rose Funeral Home
Heir Accused of Taking Children by Wife Quest
The Associated Press reports Cornelius Peter Van Schaack, 27, listed as a fortune heir, was arrested in Chicago on a disorderly conduct charge after his estranged wife alleged he took their two young children. Police Magistrate J. J. Peters in Wilmette held him. Peters refused a kidnapping warrant.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Cornelius Peter van Schaack
J. J. Peters
Wilmette
Peters
Stabbed Youth in Serious Condition at Raleigh Hospital
An 18 year old negro was stabbed in the right thigh and in a serious condition at Raleigh General Hospital. Willie Watkins of Fast Beckley said he was accidentally cut while he and a friend were handling a new knife. The doctor reported marked loss of color from lips, eyes, and nails.
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Raleigh General Hospital
Willie Watkins
Fast Beckley
Watkins
Two Girls Die in Auto Crash in Marietta
An automobile collision in the downtown district killed Ada Arnett aged 19 and Lillian Young aged 20, both of Marietta. Two young men, Louis Snack aged 21 and Forrest Lingle aged 22 of South Zanesville, Ohio, were injured.
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Preus
Troy Man Owns Valuable Coins
Troy, W. Va. Aug 1 M Rex Reed says two coins are worth far more than their face value. One is a dime from 1825 and a large copper cent minted in 1812. He notes the printing on both is legible.
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Associated Press
Troy
W. Va
Red Oaks Grow Siamese Style in Mountains near Bunker Hill
Marlinsburg West Virginia August first T Miller reported siamese twin red oaks growing in the mountains near his home at Bunker Hill. The pair, of fairly good size, joined about eight feet from their bases and above that point appeared as a single tree.
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Associated Press
Marlinsburg
W. Va
T. Miller
Bunker Hill
Nine Thousand Loans Closed in West Virginia
Washington reports that the Home Owners Loan Corporation has closed 9,084 loans totaling 22,863,243 dollars in West Virginia as of June 12. John W. Childers, assistant to the chairman, provided the figures in a letter to Representative George W. Johnson of Parkersburg.
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Associated Press
Washington
Home Owners Loan Corporation
West Virginia
John W. Childers
George W. Johnson
Parkersburg
Pastor Returns From Week's Trip
The Rev. L. E. Fineout of Mab-Scott returned home yesterday from a week visiting Grampian Pa Binghampton and Homer N C. He was joined by the Rev. S. C. Sigworth of Grampian who will lead a revival at Daniels church for the next two weeks.
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L. E. Fineout
Mab- Scott
Grampian
Binghampton
Homer
N. C
S. C. Sigworth
Daniels Church
Peace Disturber Sent to Hoosegow
Julius Mocupius a 39 year old Stickney miner began a ten day sentence in jail for disturbing the peace. He says he was arrested by Constable Emmett Williams and Deputy Sheriff Jess Thompson after his wife had a row with the neighbors.
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Julius Mocupius
Stickney
Mocupius
Emmett Williams
Jess Thompson
Belcher, 54, Dies After Long Illness in Wyoming County
Emmanuel Belcher, aged 54, died after a prolonged illness. Survivors include Paris Belcher, a candidate for sheriff of Wyoming County.
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Associated Press
Welch
Emmanuel Belcher
Paris Belcher
Wyoming County
Senators Lose In Series Opener 3 0
Huntington defeats Charleston 3 0 as four hit pitching by Joe Davis dominates. Only one Charleston runner reached second base until the ninth. Meanwhile ten homes costing 45000 are planned for married students on the West Texas State College campus.
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Associated Prep
Huntington
Charleston
Joe Davis
West Texas State College
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