Jinxes Shape Pennant Races In Early Baseball Slugfest
Veteran writer notes superstition sways lead groups as Pirates, Dodgers, Giants, Reds, and Cubs clash. Reds outlast Giants 7-6 in 11. Pirates fall 4-3 to Reds. Cubs lose 6-5 to Phillies with 12th inning homer before nightcap win. Yankees win two over White Sox. Indians rained out. Browns surprise St Louis in DH.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh S. Fullerton, Jr
Pittsburgh
Pirates
Brooklyn Dodgers
New York Giants
Cincinnati Reds
Phillies
Chicago
Cubs
Reds
Giants
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Bill Atwood
Dodgers
Boston Bees
St. Louis Cardinals
Deacon Danny MacPayden
Lou Fette
Bees
New York Yankees
Chicago White Sox
Monte Pearson
Spud Chandler
Yanks
Thornton Lee
Cleveland Indians
Washington
Boston
Red Sox
St. Louis
Browns
Hal McKain
Howard Mills
Estate heirs must answer in Winchester Court
In the Corporation Court of Winchester Virginia an order requires Thomas H Baber Ann Jane Sterell and other non resident defendants and the unknown heirs of Josephine Baber Nott to appear within ten days after publication to protect their interests. The order calls for weekly notice in the Winchester Evening Star for four weeks and posting at the courthouse. Copies will be mailed to non residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Baber
Josephine Baber Nott
Thomas H. Baber
Ada Jane Stargell
Allen Wade
Goldie Malley
Allen B. Wade, Jr
Frances Chase
Dorothy Dennis
Violet M. Hendricks
Hazel R. Davidson
Thomas Hall
William Farrar
Theodore Farrar
Joseph Herman Farrar
Ann Jane Sterell
Corporation Court
Winchester
Virginia
National baseball results from Boston to Philadelphia
National results include Boston 3 3 St Louis 2 2 Cincinnati 7 New York 6 11 innings. Brooklyn 3 Pittsburgh 2 Philadelphia 6 3. Pittsburgh 8 New York 0-54 39 581 Chicago. St Louis Cincinnati Boston Brooklyn St Louis Philadelphia scores scattered across standings with no games scheduled.
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New York
Chicago
St. Louis
Boston
Philadelphia
Detroit
Washington
Cleveland
W. New York
Elphia
Cincinnati
Brooklyn
Pittsburgh
Roosevelt August Broadcast Schedule Includes Canada Visit
President Roosevelt plans five radio appearances this August with events in Kingston Ontario and the Thousand Island bridge opening. He will also speak at a Social Security Board anniversary banquet and two Dixie network talks in Georgia. Tonight features NBC and CBS programs across WJZ WEAF WABC including Burns and Allen and Orson Welles Theater.
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New York
Roosevelt
Canada
Queen’s University
Kingston
Ont
New
Thousand Island Intentional Bridge
Social Security Board
Barnesville
Athens
CBS Dixie Networks
WJZ
NBC
Radio Forum
Stanley K. Hornbeck
WEAF
Burns and Allien
West
Margaret Speaks
Grant Park
Marek Weber
Clyde Lucas
WABC
CBS
Dick Himber
Pick and
Pat
Orson Welles
the 39 Steps
Wayne King Waltz
Joe Reichman
Ruth Bryan Rohde
Cal Tinney
Jerome Kern
Williamsburg Visitors Seek House of Burgesses Request
Inquisitive tourists ask about John D. Rockefeller Jr and Virginia restoration but a top question is for the House of Burgesses. A woman visitor insists her mother was a Burgess and wants to see the colonial legislature building in Williamsburg Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williamsburg
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Virginia
House of Burgesses
Love Is a Headache at Habie’s Palace Theatre
Franchot Tone Gladys George and Mickey Rooney star in Love Is a Headache at Habie’s Palace Theatre today and Tuesday. A glamorous romance pits a $40,000,000 playboy against a steady suitor as Fox News is also featured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franchot Tone
Gladys George
Mickey Rooney
Habie’s Palace Theatre
Fox News
Guffey sails for Europe defying Harrisburg subpena
Senator Joseph Guffey of Pennsylvania sails from New York for The Hague to attend the International Parliamentary Union, despite a subpena demanding his appearance before a Harrisburg grand jury investigating Gov. George E. Earle’s Democratic administration. He calls the subpena “cheap political publicity” and is shown with his sisters Ida and Paulette.
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Harrisburg
George E. Earle
Joseph Guffey
Penn
Sylvania
New York
International Parliamentary Union
Hague
Guffey
Ida
Paulette
Europe
Indictment Charges 103 in Rum Conspiracy Case
Federal Judge T Whitfield Davidson opened an indictment charging 103 people with violating federal liquor laws. The defendants, including six Treasury investigators, allegedly manufactured over 900000 gallons of alcohol and processed denatured alcohol. Taxes lost total about 2700000. Police and Treasury agents were arrested. distribution ran from 14 garages using five gallon cans at 15.50 to 19 per can.
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New York
Treasury Department
T. Whitfield Davidson
W. Hadlon Dickerson
United States
Dickerson
Lewis J. Valentine
Treasury
Charles
Frank Pelligrino
Manhattan
WOW Listeners in Omaha Hear Live Interruption on Radio
WOW of Omaha attracted large audience when a private circuit outage caused a national orchestra broadcast to be interrupted by an unidentified housewife and her husband debating what he should eat. Calls flooded in before the station switched to an emergency line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha, Neb
WOW of
Omaha
Wow
Sheriff Uses Beer Mediation to End Farm Labor Dispute
In Audubon Iowa Sheriff Fred Clemmensen brokered a settlement with 26 threshing workers by buying rounds of beer for all. Crew quit at Charles Tunman’s farm demanding beer as temperatures rose into the 90s, then returned to finish threshing after the sheriff’s rounds.
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Audubon
Fred Clemmensen
Charles Tunman
Mercury
Tunman
Forgetful Error Fatal Mule Attack in Stable
Louis Metz was killed when his two mules trampled him after he forgot his usual greeting in the stable. He absolved the animals of blame saying the mules did not recognize him and he forgot to talk to them.
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Chicago
Louis Metz
Metz
Front Royal Social Notes Highlight Local Visitors
Front Royal residents and visitors are listed with guests including Roy C. Holbrook of Raleigh and families of J. L. Borden Jr. and other New York and Baltimore travelers. Several locals attend gatherings, bridge games, and recent trips to Chicago and Bristol. Isabel Gore returns from Charlottesville hospital. Major James B. Golden concludes a Chicago trip. Rev. Eugene B. Jackson returns from a Maine camp with relatives.
Ladies Auxiliary Forms in Front Royal with Elected Officers
The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Samuel L. Millar Post V F W Front Royal organized Friday night. Elected officers include President E E Marlowe senior vice president Christopher Countryman junior vice president Clayton E Snyder guard B N Peters chaplain Lewis Ensminger treasurer Emile Nagel conductress John R Logan musician Ralph Hansucker trustees J C Trice W C Swartz. Mrs Herbert Smith attended the wedding of her son Norman Smith to Miss Ann Depenbrock in Washington on Saturday July 30. Front Royal Rotary Club hosts visitors including Rotarians Harry M Crim Raymond Borden Charles W Paris Jr S D Crute Lu ray and R C Holbrook guest of Mrs C Oma Mad Ox.
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Samuel L. Millar
Front Royal
E. E. Marlowe
Christopher Countryman
Clayton E. Snyder
B. N. Peters
Lewis Ensminger
Emile Nagel
John R. Logan
Ralph Hansucker
J. C. Trice
W. C. Swartz
Herbert Smith
Norman Smith
Ann Depenbrock
Washington
Remarkable visits and a Front Royal horse show highlight week
Mr. George Kanak returned from Hopewell with news of visits from Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Mitchell in Hagerstown. The annual Front Royal Remount Depot horse show took place Saturday afternoon on the show grounds. Miss Irene Mitchell of Strasburg is visiting friends here.
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Lynn Wharton
Frederick, Md
Mrs. Wharton
Nellie Wharton
Cloud Street
George Kanak
Hopewell
R. V. Mitchell
Hagerstown
Front Royal Remount Depot
Irene Mitchell
Strasburg
Svendsen’s young son tests brave on window fall
In Minneapolis 22 month old Mike Svendsen, son of 1936 Minnesota football star Earl "Bug" Svendsen, leaned on a second story window screen and toppled to the ground. A doctor examined him and found no injuries.
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Minneapolis
Earl “Bug” Svendsen
University of Minnesota
Mike
Bud
Young Svendsen
Round Up of Baseball Rumors and College Football Signs
SID Feder reports on Pirates hitters Handley and Young, Rice and Texas Christian football watch, Zeke Bonura traded bait, Gabby Hartnett’s Philly win, Babe Ruth rumored as Dodgers coach, Dimaggio linked to Giants, umpires rules on foul batted balls, and college stars at Texas Wesleyan and Oklahoma A&M. Santa Anita purses near 1 million for ’39.
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Sid Feder
Eddie Brietz
New York
Lee Handley
Pop Young
Pirates
Rice
Texas Christian
Senators
Zeke Bonura
Gabby Hartnett
Philly
Cubs
Gabby
Frankie Frisch
Tennis Mag
Don Budget
Frank Hunter
Babe Ruth
Dodgers
al Jolson
Saratoga
Henry Armstrong
Dominick Dimaggio
San Francisco
George Hull
Denver U
Bama
Noah
All Langdale
Oklahoma A. & M
Ned Irish
Santa Anita
Lou Gehrig
Jimmy Foxx
Hank Greenberg
Dizzy Dean
Daffy
Cardinals
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Feller
City OF
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Theosephine Baber Nott
Clark M. Smith
W. FE. Edwards
Cade
SILCO
Loudoun
Guiding Light
Eddie Cantor
Wjznbc
England
Habie’s
Winchester Furniture CO
Subpena
Sinclair Lewis
Cohasset
Mass
Stoke Newington
London County
Front Royal and
Warren County News
Roy C. Holbrook
Raleigh, N. C
Oma Maddox
Beverley F. Brown
Baltimore
E. H. Stokes
H. H. Marlowe
Gus King
Sweetser Green
J. L. Borden, Jr
Charles Tope
New York City
J. H. Borden
Messrs. Borden
J. L. Borden
Isabel Gore
University Hospital
Charlottesville
James B. Golden
Mrs
Gladys Craine
Washington, D. C
Vincent Yargailes
Henry E. Biggs
Tommie
Bristol
J. A. Silman
Miss Alice Silman
High Point, N. C
Arthur Sherman
J.S. Biggs
Constance Yates
Mildred Sherman
Biggs
Eugene B. Jackson
Augusta
Maine
Virgil B. Jackson
Dad
San
Kia” McCoy
N. Y
Jack Dempsey
Red Burman
Mickey Walker
Loudoun St
Bill Cissell
Sox
Tony Zoneri
Saratogawa
Texas Wesleyan
Elliot Roosevelt
Dent
Wesleyans
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General Electric
Anderson
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