Tigers Edge Indians as pennant race narrows in final games
Detroit split a twin bill with Cleveland winning 11-0 behind Hal Newhouser who notched his 24th win while Gallentine hit his 18th homer and Greenberg 12th. Cleveland later won 3-3 to deny Detroit. St Louis closed within a game and a half of Chicago in the NL race as Brooklyn clinched a tie for third with an 8-1 win over New York.
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Minor League Playoff Scores Across Circuits
Newark defeats Montrest 7-2 in the International League final series opener. Louisville and St Paul rain delayed as they race in the American Association final tied two games apiece. Wilkes Barre 2 Albany 1 leaves the Eastern league final tied. Mobile wins the Southern Association title four games to one over New Orleans. Portland 4 Seattle 3 leads the Pacific Coast League best of five. San Francisco 6 Sacramento 5 opens their series.
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Wheatley Lions Rout Victoria High 38-0 at Alamo Stadium
Wheatley Lions, San Antonio negro high school, crushed Victoria negro high 38 to 0 before 3545 paid admissions at Alamo Stadium. Four touchdowns in the first quarter set the tone with Paxton returning a 57 yard punt for a score and Carter Brown and Glen-Gerson contributing on offense.
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Robinson Outduels LaMotta For Fifth Time In Chicago
Sugar Ray Robinson defeated Jake LaMotta by split decision in their fifth meeting before 14,755 fans in Chicago. The bout earned receipts of $74,434 with Robinson guaranteed $25,000. no knockdowns occurred and the action stayed fast throughout.
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Anti-Bond Group Forces Recheck Of Vote Machines
Postwar bond issue results in the city showing five of 22 projects approved. anti-bond faction forces a recount by requesting a machine tally check under a new election law. Petition by 38 voters seeks machine review of 152 voting machines from Tuesday’s election. The canvassing board agrees to recheck. official results await machine tally comparison.
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Isolationism road to ruin says Truman
President Truman warned that a swing to isolationism would ruin the United States. He outlined questions on Japan's fleet, the atomic bomb, and Japan's occupation under MacArthur. He dismissed talk of another Big Three meeting and urged staying engaged in world affairs.
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Sailors urged to stock up before discharge
The navy advises sailors to buy underwear, work clothes, handkerchiefs, shoes, and other apparel in service stores before discharge to reduce service store inventories and ease civilian stock drain.
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Students Seek To Keep Fraternities at Alamo Heights
A petition circulated at Alamo Heights High School asks the school board to repeal its ban on fraternities and sororities. The petition, led by local businessmen and women, urges a student and parent vote on the issue and criticizes the board action as undemocratic. Principal L G Nystrom supports the order, citing interference by such groups. The pledge cards threaten loss of school offices, activities, and graduation eligibility for students who refuse to sign, with a 30 day deadline to sign.
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Russian airman sets parachute leap record at 42 000 feet
Mascor radio reports Maj. Vassili Romanyik, a Russian airman, achieved a new world record for a delayed parachute drop from 42 000 feet. The parachute allegedly deployed at about 2 626 feet, aided by an automatic device, amid extreme cold at altitude.
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Oil Workers Hold Out Threat of National Walkout
National labor tension rose as about 1.85 million idle workers faced strikes and indirect stoppages. Chicago oil industry talks with federal conciliators faced deadlock amid threats of a nationwide oil workers walkout, with 35,000 on strike across seven states. New York City saw a major strike impacting business and trade losses. Elevator operators and building service workers, about 15,000 strong, threatened to spread the action.
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Hirohito Doffs Hat to MacArthur Amid Abdication Wait
The emperor bowed to General MacArthur in a symbolic gesture as radio reports say Hirohito may abdicate after redrafting Japan's constitution. Meanwhile Indochina erupts with Saigon unrest as Amanite resistance to French rule enters day four. Marines sail to aid China in disarming Jap invaders as Shanghai reports completion of that task in ten days.
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OPA Removes Low Grade Meats from Ration List
OPA announced that all low grades of beef veal lamb and by products will be removed from the ration list Sunday. Red points will not be required in October for nonular meats. Ration values continue for porkets bacon and other cured meats. Housewives will receive 60 red points for meats and fats Oct 1. Fat sale points rise from two to four per pound Monday.
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Two Men Sought After Dice Game Slaying
Police sought two suspects after Bennie F Petti Brew 43 died from a 1 am street dice game argument at Travis and Main. Eyewitness Daniel Univas 10 reported the assailants fled. Manuel Cazales 25, wounded, listed at Robert B Green Hospital with a left leg wound. Derlin AP notes Brandenburg allocation to landless farmers as part of eastern Germany’s land reform.
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