Pinckneyville Edges Grand Tower In Protest Heavy 12th Frame
In a Trico league game at Pinckneyville Grand Tower lost 3-2 in 12 innings after a protest over interference in the eighth. Tom Millikin scored the deciding run for Pinckneyville on Frassato’s hit. West Frankfort beat Murphy 4-2 in Murphysboro. Carbondale and Dowells game washed out.
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West Frankfort
Murphy Nine
Carbondale
Dowells
Hines
Tom Dunn
Dowell
Murphyshore
Teddy Koenigsmark
T. Millikin
Miller
Rf B. Hardy
Rt Williams
Lf Mohlenbrock
P Koenigsmark
Johnston City Beats Carterville 5-3 In Legion Ball
Johnston City American Legion wins 5-3 over Carterville Stars after a 13 hit attack. Resnik hits a sixth inning homer with two aboard, as Carterville scores all runs in the seventh. C Franklin allows 13 hits in his start for Carterville. Hickey goes five for Johnston City. Next Sunday Carterville meets Carbondale Kroger Stars at Crainville Park.
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American Legion
Carterville Stars
Resnik
Carterville
C. Franklin
Nick Milosevich
Bob Johnson
Franklin
Carbondale Kroger Stars
Crainville Park
Smith
Chew
Rice
Reynolds
P Greer
W. Bollinger
Ij. Bollinger
J. Franklin
CITY
Castrale
Woodford
Oldani
Kastorine
Hickey
P Dempsey
Ruzich
Litton
Police Escort Gas Truck Deliveries In Chicago Strikes
Police ordered tank trucks escorted through Chicago to prevent trouble as gas deliveries faced a fifth day of strikes. Lt. Patrik J. Condon said escorts were planned in Englewood with guards for drivers amid threats and union placard damage. The dispute centers on wage demands as Teamsters seek raises while employers offer concessions.
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Chicago
Chigo Areas
Patrik J. Condon
Englewood
Thomas Bowman
Chanute Plane Crashes Near Shelbyville Killing Two
A two engine Beechcraft plane from Chanute Field Illinois crashed near Bedford County community on the Lewisburg highway eight miles from Shelbyville Tennessee. Cecil Burns a nearby resident saw the plane falter and witnessed two occupants trapped in the burning wreckage. Names of victims not yet released.
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Tenn
Chanute Field
Bedford County
Lewisburg
Cecil Burns
Union drives fuel firm contracts in Chicago area gas station readymark
About 150 firms signed new contracts with drivers under the union plan to mark trucks with placards including Bowman's. Pieck says signatories will only serve their regular stations while large oil firms like Phillips Shell Standard Pure Oil and Sinclair have not joined yet. Vorhees notes many signatories run a single truck. Increasing signs warn Sorry out of gas.
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K. Friend & Co
Chicago Teamsters
Chicago
Ing
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Louis F. Pieck
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Shell
Standard
Pure Oil
Sinclair
Mel E. Vorhees
Mitchell Improves Slightly in Critical Condition
Atlanta reporter notes novelist Margaret Mitchell, 43, shows some improvement after a blood transfusion and tube feeding. Family spokesman confirms skull and pelvis fractures from Thursday night auto crash. X rays indicate condition is critical but color has bettered.
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Atlanta
Margaret Mitchell
Husband Says Two Kills Self In Kansas Shooting
In Lyons Kansas Donald Bunce 25 shot and killed his grandparents Wilbur Shoemaker 61 and Anna 58 and wounded his wife Virginia 4 before dying in a hospital The children aged 1 to 7 witnessed the events Bunce had threatened to take custody of the children and invade the grandparents home late Saturday night leaving four killed or wounded and a family shattered.
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Grandma
Mommy
Clarence Patterson
Donald Bunce
Virginia Bunce
Wilbur Shoemaker
Anna
Bunce
Patterson
Girl Softball Player Dies After Blood Appeal
A 13-year-old Peekskill girl Carol Valentino died after a July 29 head injury in a girls softball game. She had been in a coma in Grasslands hospital following surgery to repair a brain vein rupture, with more than 100 donors responding to a WLNA radio appeal.
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Carol Valentino
Grasslands Hospital
Here
Wlna Here
Cambria Boosters Triumph Over Murphysboro Red Wings 10-4
Cambria Boosters pounded 12 hits to defeat Murphysboro Red Wings 10-4 in a shoe day baseball game at Cambria. White pitched a complete game, adding four hits himself, while Borgsmiller hit a long triple and Daniels contributed two timely singles for Murphysboro.
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Murphysboro Red Wings
Cambria
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Daniels
Murphysboro
RH Thomas
Bradley
G. Holt
Rf Congiardo
J. Holt
Burbank
McDaniel
P Mileur
H' G. Elkins
Modglin
Ethridge
P Storme
Ashby
Williams
Church
D. Elkins
Gorham Beats All Stars 4-3 in Sunday Nons
Gorham defeated the All Stars 4 to 3 after out hitting Carbondale in a tight game. The All Stars led early with two runs in the first inning, Gorham answered with one in the first and three in the fifth, the score holds until the eighth when Oszlia? no. Grace earned the win and Halterman took the loss as next Sunday the teams meet in Crainville for a rubber game of the series.
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Carbondale
al Stars
All Stars
Robinson
Riggs
Patterson
Halterman
Bigbe
Russell
Grace
Crainville
Gas Strike Conciliator Plank Dies in Chicago Hotel
Howard A. Plank a 51 year old federal labor conciliator working to end Chicago gasoline strike was found dead in his hotel room by his wife. A coroner's physician planned to determine the cause of death believed to be a heart ailment. Plank had met with disputants in the strike just the previous day.
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Howard A. Plank
Chicago
Plank
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Yesterday's Stars: Johnson Drives Wins and Giants Clip Phils
Batting star Billy Johnson of the Yankees drove in two runs in a 4-2 win over the Athletics and added a double and homer for all three Yankee runs in a 4-3 loss in the second game. Pitcher Larry Jansen of the Giants hurled a two hit effort as the Giants edged the Phillies 1-0 in the second game, with the club taking the opener 8-1.
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Yankees
Athletics
Larry Jansen
Giants
Phils
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