McCleery-Cumming Clinch City Softball Title
McCleery-Cumming clinched the men’s city softball title with a nine win one loss season after beating Freshwaters 3 to 1. The Skelgas Cubs already trail by two losses and hold the Rothschild trophy. In a separate game Skelgas Cubs defeated Freshwaters 5 to 1 as Hartzel and Ramsayer split mound duties.
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Freshwaters
Skelgas Cubs
Crull
Bob Lowe
Boileau
Lowe
Smith
Hartzel
Manassier
Rainy weather disrupts major league baseball pennant chase
Rain drenches schedules as doubleheaders pile up for Yankees Indians Dodgers Giants and Phillies. Athletics beat Red Sox 4 to 3 in 13 innings, Carl Scheib earning his seventh win. Browns edge White Sox 3 to 2 in 11 with Jim Dyck homer. Stu Miller wins for Cardinals over Cubs.
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Dodgers
Giants
Yankees
Senators
Indians
Tigers
Phillies
Braves
Athletics
Red Sox
Chicago
Carl Scheib
Browns
White Sox
Jim Dyck
Gene Bearden
St. Louis Cardinals
Stu Miller
Columbus
Stewart and Crone Nine Move to Thursday Play
Two games at Wap sito tonight were canceled. Stewart and Crone will play Thursday at Letts and meet in Central Park at 6 30 p.m. for transportation. No game at Green field Friday due to the All Star football telecast from Chicago.
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Greenfield
Skelgas Cubs
Freshwaters
Wapsito
Stewart and Crone
Letts
Central Park
Chicago
Anti Truman Democrats Sweep Arkansas Gubernatorial Runoff
Anti Truman Democrats celebrate in Little Rock as Chancellor Francis Cherry wins the Arkansas run off primary in a landslide, defeating Gov. Sid McMath amid strong criticism of the national administration.
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Little Rock, Ark
Sid McMath
Arkansas
Francis Cherry
Seven Teams Enter Tourney Here Sunday
Seven softball teams have entered the tournament to be held at Greenfield in Washington Sunday, August 17. Play will start at noon with admission for the entire afternoon and evening $1 for adults and 50 cents for children. Stewart Crone will represent Washington in the tournament. Other teams entered include Dave's Timber Jacks State Improvement of Muscatine Wapello Ainsworth Muscatine Buick and Letts.
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Greenfield
Washington
Admisson
Stewart & Crone
Dave's Timber Jacks
State Improvement of
Muscatine
Wapello
Ainsworth
Muscatine Buick
Letts
Local News Briefs Include Tours, Vacations, and Election Results
Pvt. E2 Robert P. Robinson and Mrs. Robinson arrive from Augusta to spend a 10 day fur lough at the Homer Godwin home and Reinbeck with Paul and Colleen Godwin Robinson. Robinson to Baltimore for missile research at Glen L. Martin Aircraft. Dinner guests include Herdlicka brothers from Seattle and Philadelphia. Willis Wittmer, ex-Washington, is hospital patient in Town City. Craynes return from Lake Walker Minnesota with good fishing luck. Missouri voters defeat McMath 5 to 3. Symington chosen for Senate as Truman support ends.
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Robert P. Robinson
Dale Herdlicka
Laverne Herdlicka
Seattle
Wash
Herrel Herdlicka
Philadelphia
Walter Herdlicka
Town City
Willis Wittmer
Washington
Renwick
University Hospital
Bill Crayne
Eddie
Rose Ann
Lake Walker
Minn
Ralph Kleese
G. E. Montgomery
Craynees
Contract Talks with Packers Stalemated
In Chicago CIO United Packinghouse Workers report walkouts at meat plants continue amid a stalemate in talks with major packers. Armour & Co denies triggering trouble by not extending contracts expired Monday night while other contracts expired Tuesday night.
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CIO United Packinghouse
Armour & Co
Iowa Guardsmen Eat “C” Rations at Camp McCoy
Iowa Nebraska National Guard units at Camp McCoy Wisconsin on two weeks duty ate from cans for one day as cooks and KP crews took a break. An army order directed all National Guard summer encampments to eat C rations to familiarize troops with combat meals.
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Camp Mccoy
Wis
Iowa-Nebraska National Guard
34Th
National Guard
Nine Dead In Egyptian Factory Riots Near Alexandria
In Kafr el Dawar near Alexandria, nine people died and 33 were injured as rioting and arson erupted at the 5,000 worker cotton mills. A state of emergency was declared in Alexandria after clashes involving soldiers policemen and workers caused extensive fire damage estimated at 1.148 million dollars.
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Cairo
Kafr el Dawar
Alexandria
Farouk
Egypt
Kafr el Dawa
Prohibition Party Nominates Kellum for Iowa Governor
The Prohibition Party of Iowa nominated Rev. Z. Everett Kellum of Cedar Rapids as its candidate for governor at a state convention in Des Moines. Kellum is pastor of the Free Methodist church in Cedar Rapids and previously led a Des Moines church from 1945 to 1950.
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Des Moines
Prohibition Party of
Iowa
Z. Everett Kellum
Cedar Rapids
Kellum
Free Methodist Church
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