Senators stun Indians as eight game streak shocks experts
Washington Senators ride an eight game winning run after a 1 0 win over the world champion Indians. Mickey Haefner tossed a one hit shutout in near freezing weather, with Larry Doby collecting the lone Cleveland hit. The streaks across leagues were interrupted by rainouts.
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Washington Senators
Clark Griffith
Joey Kuhe
Mickey Haefner
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Larry Doby
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Red Sox
Gerald Priddy
Charley Stobbs
Red Embree
Ted Williams
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Tigers
Detroit
Hal Newhouser
KOLUMN KOMMENTS On using 2,4-D and farm notes
Spring lawn guidance covers when to spray and how to avoid drift use powder or amino forms and low pressure for best results. Farmers report cheaper lumber steadier metal supplies more farm machinery and fencing nearing demand plus fertilizer tips for corn yields and alfalfa wilt detection via root tips. A reindeer in northern Finland eats about 27 pounds of lichen daily.
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Finland
Benner Tea Plans Open House At New Burlington Warehouse
Benner Tea Company opens its four acre warehouse and office building three miles west of Burlington on highway 34 for a two day public inspection May 14 and 15. The event coincides with the firm’s 50th anniversary founded by A. J. Benner in 1898. Milton Sandell says thousands will tour the modern facility featuring over 2 000 items 1200 plus refrigeration pounds of meat and space for eight freight cars and 12 semis with electric lift trucks and 1700 feet of conveyors.
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Burlington Benner Tea Company
Burlington
Highway
A. J. Benner
United States
Chester Seniors Prepare Play Out on a Limb
West Chester high school seniors present the three act comedy drama Out on a Limb by Albert Johnson Friday evening May 13 at eight in the high school gym. Mrs A G Diekman directs with cast including Regina Weber Florence Greiner Mark Weber Carol Richardson Billie Weber Esther Bauer Mable Hyde Virginia Argo and others. The school band led by Irvan J Rich will perform a 7 30 concert before the play and promoter Faith Bauer assists.
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West Chester
Albert Johnson
West Chester High School
A. G. Diekman
Regina Weber
Florence Greiner
Mark Weber
Carol Richardson
Billie Weber
Esther Bauer
Mable Hyde
Virginia Argo
Dodenhoff
Kenneth Young
Orville Gray
Harold Nicola Push Pringle
Marjorie Greiner Bird
Peggy McDowell
Charles Craig
Victor Hartzler
Dorothy Mattingly
Jean Ann Cherr
CUETO
Charles Greiner
Irvan J. Rich
Faith Bauer
Jean Ann Cherry
Seniors' Comedy Plots Winslow Family Tangle in Youngest
Washington junior high pupils attend the dress rehearsal of the senior class play The Youngest, showing at the high school auditorium. Public performances are set for Thursday and Friday at eight o'clock with tickets available at Phillips Drug store. Philip Barry's three act comedy follows the Winslow family of pin makers as they quarrel and abuse Richard over his profession, driving the plot.
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Washington Junior High
Phillips Drug Store
Philip Barry
Winslow
Richard
Border Veterans Convene First Annual Meeting at Hotel LaFayette
Iowa Department of the United Mexican Border Veterans will hold its first annual convention at Hotel LaFayette Clinton on May 14 and 15. EB Burham of Washington is Department Judge Advocate. Delegates and their wives plus invited Mexican Border veterans and members at large attend. Clinton ladies auxiliary will host visiting ladies. Banquet speaker is Harry Ward State Representative from Scott County and Border service veteran. National officers and staff from Indianapolis will attend.
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Harry Ward
Scott County
The
Border Service
Indianapolis
Ind
Protestant leaders plan national Protestant newspaper
About 200 clergymen and lay leaders opened a two day meeting in Kansas City to establish a national Protestant newspaper. They planned to buy and develop the Protestant Voice, a privately published paper for eight years, into a publication for the Protestant word. Dr. Robert W. Searle urged immediate need for a national Protestant newspaper.
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Protestant Voice
Robert W. Searle
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New York
Voters End Hague Machine Rule In Jersey City
Jersey City voters ended the 80 year rule of Frank Hague as John V. Kenny’s fusion slate won. Kenny said he will ask Judge Brennan to compel preservation of records and assign auditors as the new Freedom commission takes office. Meteorite debris also reported in nearby area.
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Frank
Llam
Hague
New “Freedom
John V. Kenny
Superior Court
William J. Brennan
Hage
Freedom
Plans for County 4 H Clubs Summer Months
County 4 H boys and girls committees met at the Farm Bureau office to set policies for summer activities. They outlined roles for the Junior county fair in August with Future Farmers and Future Homemakers of American joining. Attendance at district club camps and conventions at Ames was planned, along with a county sports festival. District camps run June 5-7 for boys and June 27-30 for girls at Camp Eastman. State conventions at Ames are scheduled for girls June 21-24 and boys June 27-30. Further announcements will follow.
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Ames
Camp
Eastman
British Socialists Stymied by Cost Of Promised Improvements
London observer Donald White reports the British Labour Party faces a funding crisis as it drafts next year’s platform. With extensive social security and medical insurance already in place, there is little room for new, costly promises and the taxpayer cannot be squeezed further.
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London
Labor Party
Great Britain
Donald White
New Leader
East 15Th Street
New York City
White
Marion L Timmins Receives Constructive Breeder Award
Marion L Timmins former Washington county resident now of Osceola Indiana received the Constructive Breeder Award for 1948 from the Ayrshire Breeders association. He produced an average 9643 pounds of milk and 404 pounds of butterfat with half his herd home bred. The award was to be presented at the association's 74th annual meeting in Indianapolis Indiana.
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Marion L. Timmins
Washington County
Timmins
Osceola
Town
Ayrshire Breeders’ Association
Indianapolis
Indiana
Ayrshire Association
Savings Bond Drive Opens May 16 With Wagon Trek
G E Mace, Washington County savings bonds chairman, announced the kickoff will be May 18 in Independence Missouri. Fifty of the original 1849 gold rush Conestoga wagons will begin a nationwide trek for the drive, with one wagon flown to Des Moines for display and shown in about 20 Iowa cities. The wagons, loaned by the motion picture industry, will tour during the opportunity drive.
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G. E. Mace
Washington County Savings Bonds
Independence
Des Moines
Iowa
Roger F. Warin
Motion Picture
Bonn Named provisional capital of new West Germany
The West German constituent assembly chose Bonn as provisional capital, voting 33 to 29 over Frankfurt. Two communists abstained, one ballot was invalid. Bonn, population about 100 thousand, lies on the Rhine in the British zone near Cologne.
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Germany
Bonn
Constituent Assembly
Frankfurt
Stuttgart
Kassel
Rhine
Cologne
Acheson to Explain U S Stance on Spain to Congress
Secretary of State Dean Acheson plans a private meeting with three sharp critics, Kenneth Wherry, Styles Bridges, and Pat McCarran, to defend U S policy toward Spain. He will argue the United Nations boycott guides decisions on Spain and that Spain's place in the Marshall Plan and Atlantic Pact should be for Western European nations to decide.
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Dean Acheson
U. S
Spain
Kenneth S. Wherry
Neb
Styles Bridges
N. H
Pat McCarran
Ney
Acheson
United Nations
Britain
France
Deane Rinner Heads Veishea Horse Show
Deane Rinner of Washington named program chairman for Iowa State College Veishea Horse Show set for May 12. The event, part of the 28th Veishea festival May 12 13 and 14, draws over 160 entries across 18 classes with more than $1500 in premiums and several trophies. Nine classes run both afternoon and evening. Veishea is the nation’s largest student managed festival.
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L. H. Rinner
East Jefferson Street
Washington
Ilowa State College
Veishea
Towa State College
Berlin Rolling Stock Ready to Roll for May 12
As the Berlin blockade ends, workers prepare rolling stock for operation on May 12. After ten months idle, locomotives are greased boilers tested and coaches cleaned to resume interzonal service.
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