Billy Pierce Delivers One-Hit Gem for White Sox at Yanks
Billy Pierce pitched six years after a Mack prophecy to stifle the Yankees with a one hit win at the Polo Grounds. The 5 to 1 victory featured a weather delay and a late single by Billy Johnson. Cleveland topped Boston. St Louis routed Washington. Braves swept Reds in the NL twin bill.
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Bob Lemon
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Sid Gordon
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Dick Kokos
Brownies
Boston Tops Reds in 2 Game Split Scores
Major Leagues game notes show Boston defeating Cincinnati 5 to 3 in one match and 6 to 5 in another, indicating a split series with the Red Sox securing the higher single game total in the second contest.
Washington Journal Classifieds Showaine Staff and Rates
Washington Journal details publish schedule and staff roles for the Washington Iowa paper. It notes afternoons except Sundays and holidays, second class matter under the 1879 act, and lists editors managers and advertising staff. Subscription rates are outlined for in town and outside Iowa.
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W. J. Shannon
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Iowa
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Inland Daily Press
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TOOF City League Softball Tonight at Greenfield
The TOOF city league schedules a postponed game against Freshwaters at Greenfield tonight. In the nightcap Wyman faces McCleery Cumming with stakes for league standings.
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Freshwaters
Greenfield
Wyman
McCleery-Cumming
Maybelle Rothchilds Play All Star Softball in Lone Tree
The Maybelle Rothchilds from Washington headline tonight’s all star softball game at Lone Tree. Local fans are set for a night event as teams clash under lights.
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Maybelle-Rothcchild
Washington
Lone Tree
Miners Race to Free Five Trapped in Cadomin Shaft
Muddy coal miners labored 340 feet underground to reach five companions trapped by McLeod River floodwater in the Cadomin coal mine. With only hope for a miracle, the rescuers faced rubble barred passages and a blocked ventilating system.
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Cadomin
Alta
GOP Bar President Supports Switzer Nomination Hearing
The Polk County Bar Association president said he will tell the Senate Judiciary Committee that Democrat Carroll Switzer is a good judge. A hearing on Switzer’s federal judgeship for the Iowa Southern District is set for tomorrow in Washington with Switzer backed by Addison G. Kistle and others.
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Des Moines
Polk County Bar Association
Senate Judiciary Committee
Carroll Switzer
Washington
Switzer
Iowa Southern
Senate
Truman
Guy Gillette
Addison G. Kistle
Council Bluffs
Howard L. Bump
Bar Association
Iowa
Sump
Lechner and Clark Family Trip Heads Toward Minnesota
Local figures Henry Lechner of Brighton Norman Lechner of Washington and Clarence Clark of Muscatine plan a weekend fishing trip into Minnesota and Canada. Mrs Norman Lechner and son Kurt will stay at the Henry Lechner home in Brighton next week. Bob Logan begins a workplace vacation from Kleine Kloth ing Company, visiting Monmouth Illinois as Harold Young’s guest. Clarence and Mr. Mrs. Logan will escort him there Sunday.
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Brighton
Norman Lechner
Washington
Clarence Clark
Muscatine
Minnesota
Canada
Kurt
Bob Logan
Kleine Klothing Company
Monmouth Illinois
Harold Young
Clarence Logan
Monmouth
Polar bears learn to swim from keeper in Detroit zoo
Detroit zoo bears Jo Jo and Jerry, three month old orphaned cubs found shivering on Barter Island, resist water despite daily lessons by keeper Sorak. He acts as mother while trainer Don Berg of Traverse City supports teaching, but the cubs avoid the pool and stay on dry land.
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Jerry
Detroit Zoological Park
Sarak
Mama
Papa Bear
Mama Bear
Alaska
Barter Island
Don Berg
Traverse City
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Detroit Zoo Zoo
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Federated Presbyterian Church Sunday Schedule Crawfordsville
The Federated Presbyterian church in Crawfordsville lists 9:45 a.m. Sunday school for all ages and 10:50 a.m. morning worship with a sermon on Three Great Men of God Who Failed as Fathers. Union youth meeting at 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. evening service at the Federated church. Missionary tea at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday hosted by the Women’s Missionary Society featuring old and unusual Bibles display. Mrs. Earl Monson organizing. Ernest Smith minister. Robert Henderson superintendent.
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Federated Church
Women’s Missionary Society
Earl Monson
Ernest Smith
Robert Henderson
Iowa City and Davenport residents head to Alaska and Los Angeles
Mr and Mrs O Blankenberg of Kankakee Ill depart for Alaska while Mrs Milo Sorden returns from a T T T meeting in Sioux City. Allan Barclay and family resume Iowa City for summer school as Will Manassier joins a Shriners national meeting in Los Angeles aboard a 19 car Kaaba temple special train. Harold Lloyd is noted as imperial potentate of Shrine temples in North America.
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T.f T. T
Sioux City
Sorden
Allan Barclay
Iowa City
Barclay
The
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Glen Barclay
Will Manassier
Los Angeles
Shriners
Kaaba Temple
Davenport
Chicago
Manassier
Harold Lloyd
Imperial Potentate
North America
Oklahoma Outfit Homer Cook Surrenders in Munich Room
Homer Sook, an American, surrendered to police in a Munich bedroom at 4 a.m. EDT after a chase that began when a German truck driver saw him enter the building. He wore fatigue trousers and an undershirt, wounded and in pain from blood poisoning and a hand injury from escaping Dachau a day earlier.
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Germany
Oklahoma
Homer Sook
Anna Sperer
Cook
Anna
Dachau
Soviet zone barges delayed at West Berlin locks
Thirty four Soviet zone barges were blocked at the West Berlin locks due to improper documentation. German authorities call the move a reprisal for Russian regulations blocking scrap metal barges from Berlin to Western Germany. Milo Sorden returns tonight to Mason City after a few days on business.
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Soviet Zone
West Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Milo Sorden
Mason City
Wedding greetings for Cox couple in 1920 ceremony
The item notes wedding congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Ray Cox who wed in 1920. It also lists birthday greetings today for Jane Whitehead, Howard Swift, and Mrs. Elizabeth Young.
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H. J. Brennman
Marilyn Kelsey
Ed Chalupa
Howard Caladdell
F. W. Fastwood
George Birney
Ray Cox
Jane Whitehead
Howard Swift
Elizabeth Young
New Homes Under Construction in Kalona
Kalona residents report several new houses being built in all town sections. Names include L. J Strickler, Harry Grout, George W Fry, Delmar Schlabaugh, Harry Malichly Jr, Gail Shaver, Donald Thompson, Emil Ropp, and Ed Hatchcroft who will start as principal of the local school this fall while taking summer classes at the State University of Iowa.
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Kalona
L. J Strickler
Harry Grout
George W. Fry
Delmar Schlabaugh
Harry Malichly Jr
Gail Shaver
Donald Thompson
Emil Ropp
Ed Hatchcroft
Reif
Edwin Morgan
Hatchcroft
State University of Iowa
Iowa City
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