Milwaukee Nine to Face Locals Sunday Afternoon
Fast Milwaukee nine from Washington to meet locals Sunday afternoon. Speedballer to be hurler for the Park nine. The Brewers own a strong infield and outfield showing this year with Fredericksburg Red Sox and others named as comparables. Park lineup expected to start with Speedball Hope on the mound and Chick Curry back in right field lineup.
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Fast Milwaukee
Washington
Milwaukee Brewers
Vicuchea
Fredericksburg
Hope
Memphis Chicks
Southern Association
Oor Cue
Chick Curry
Milwaukee
Kidwell
Bowie
Forner
Snyder
Holbers
Langley
Herndon
Jenkins
Murdock
Om i
TVA Inquiry Is Resumed In Berry Marble Case
A congressional committee in Chattanooga resumes its TVA inquiry into the Berry Marble leases amid allegations of newspaper subsidization and private utility efforts to block public power. TVA Chairman Harcourt A. Morgan reiterates that TVA staff handled Berry and associates claims in the Norris basin with diligence.
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Tenn
TVA
Berry Marbie
Chattancore
Chattanooga
Harcourt A. Morgan
David E. Lilienthal
George L. Berry
Norris Basin
Davis Pledges Aid To Coal Industry Reform
Senator James J. Davis of Pennsylvania pledged to aid the GOP in removing politics from the Coal Commission and to revive the ailing anthracite industry. Speaking at a rally after touring coal fields, he said he would restore price stability to protect miners' wages and shield operators from unfair competition while benefiting consumers.
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Greensburg
James J. Davis
Beck Opens Narrow Lead in National Public Links
Eddie Beck of Portland Oregon holds a three hole edge over Louis Cyr of Cleveland after 18 holes of their 36 hole semi final in the National Public Links Championship.
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Cleveland
Eddie Beck
Portland
Ore
Louis Cyr
National
Public Links Golf
Equine Court Scene Reveals Mobster Links in Trial
The trial continues as Lloyd Pam Stryker grills Brothwell on whether his courtroom glance identified Hines among spectators. Testimony notes Brothwell’s prior photo identifications and a detective briefing. Records from Brothwell’s Riding Academy link Dutch Schultz mobsters to horse riding amid Prohibition era intrigue. Schultz and henchmen were killed in a Newark tavern in 1935.
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Lloyd Pam Stryker
Brothwell
Hines
Schultz
Mr. Hines
Justice Supreme Court
Ferdinand Pecora
Stricker
Dewey
Dutch Schultz
Connecticut
Lulu” Rosenkranz
Bobbie
Lulu
Newark, N. J
Walter Johnson to Autograph Fans at Leesburg Carnival
Walter Johnson, former major league pitcher and manager of the Dr. Pepper Baseball Team in Washington, is listed to appear at Leesburg’s annual fireman carnival tonight and will sign autographs for attendees.
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Walter Johnson
Washington
Dr. Pepper
Johnson
Surplus Wheat To Be Purchased By Government
The Agriculture Department announced plans to buy surplus American wheat this week and next Monday for export and domestic relief. The exact quantity is not yet determined as grain dealers are asked to submit offers via telegraph. The purchases initiate a program aimed at moving 100 million bushels into foreign markets through a subsidy, with details to be released later.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Third Party Prospect Fades in Pennsylvania Politics
Harrisburg August 26. A third party practically faded from the Pennsylvania political picture as an active competitor for the state's votes. Charles W. Carroll of Philadelphia, founder of the Pathfinder party, abandoned it as an independent unit and began a drive to turn it into a vehicle to aid the Republican ticket.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Charles W. Carroll
Philadelphia
Pathfinder Party
Missionary G Raymond Womeldorf to Speak at Open Door Class
The Open Door Bible Class of Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church will host Rev. G Raymond Womeldorf as guest teacher this Sunday at 9 45 AM. Womeldorf has served as Southern Presbyterian missionary in Hwaianfu Ku China since 1923 and is brother to Rev Wemeldorf. Officers urge all members to attend as voting for class officers occurs, with terms starting September. strangers and visitors will be welcomed.
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Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church
Raymond Womeldorf
Southern Presbyterian Church
Hwaianfu
China
Wemeldorf
Biense Presbyterian Tome
Anl
Vanderbilt Horse Airframe Doping Probe At Saratoga
State and Federal officials pressed an inquiry into charges that Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's Airframe and possibly other horses at the Saratoga track were doped. The state racing commission suspended Raymond Smith, groom in charge of Airframe, and notified Harry Anslinger that saliva tests showed the horse had received a heavy narcotic dose.
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Saratoga Springs
N. Y
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
Saratoga Track
State Racing Commission
Raymond Smith
Harry J. Anslinger
Federal Bureau of Narcotics
Washington
Probe sought into relief work by Cambria official
Conneaut Lake Pennsylvania August 26 Henry L Canno Cambria county Johnstown comptroller says the States Relief Administration is a political football He will today recommend an investigation of the Department of Public Assistance Canno a Republican member of the Goodrich Committee named by Governor Earle to study relief problems said he did not recognize the committee report when the legislature finished with it After reviewing the report the legislature adopted the consolidated relief act
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Conneaut Lake
Henry L. Canno
Cambria County
Johnstown
Department of Public Assistance
Canno
Goodrich
Earle
French-Polish duo tops top seeds in doubles semifinal
Mme Rene Mathieu of France and Jadwiga Jedrzejowska struck the upset at the National Doubles Tennis Tournament in Brookline mass by defeating top-seeded Nancye Wynne and Thelma Coyne 6-4 6-2 in a semi final. They advance to face defending champions Alice Marble and Sarah Palfrey Fabyan in the final.
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Alice Marble
Sarah Palfrey Fabyan
Breaks 99 In Vandalia Shoot
Pi Parr Rhines a 27-year-old hardware store employee from Marseilles Illinois broke 99 of 100 from the 19 yard line to lead the Grand American Handicap trapshoot in Vandalia Ohio on August 26. This was his first big time start and he did not miss until the 99th target.
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Vandalia
Pi— Parr Rhines
Marseilles
Ill
Hanitis
Marvel Will Direct Delaware Democrats
Josiah Marvel Jr of Christiana Hundred will direct Democratic party activities in Delaware for the fall campaign and year ahead. The state convention re elected Marvel as state chairman by acclamation after Norman Collison withdrew. They also elected Mrs. Jessie Phillips vice chairman Wilbur E Jacobs treasurer and Miss Stannislas Riley secretary.
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Dover
Del
Josiah Marvel, Jr
Christiana Hundred
Delaware
Norman Collison
Bridgeville
Jessie Phillips
Wilmington
Wilbur E. Jacobs
Harrington
Stannislas Riley
President Warns Against Short Cuts to Utopia Pension Plan
HYDE PARK N Y August 26 President Roosevelt said a California proposal to grant $30 weekly pensions to all over 50 is a short cut to utopia. He noted the idea in California and pointed to his Social Security address urging year by year development while warning against such shortcuts and fantastical financial schemes.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
California
Utopia
Wagner Act Debate Sparks Labor Relations Talk
Washington August 26 debate over amending the Wagner Labor Relations Act unfolds as lawmakers consider changes. The discussion centers on labor rights and employer relations amid rising union activity.
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Washington
Chairman Dies accuses labor group of smoke screen
Washington reports Chairman Dies, a Democrat from Texas, charged the labor non-partisan league with throwing up a smoke screen to obscure charges that many organizers and officials are Communists. He said the CIO affiliated group evaded the real issue by charging Edward F. Sullivan, an Un American Committee investigator, with past subversive activity.
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Washington
Dies
D-Tex
Labor
League Today
Roosevelt proposal aims to clarify labor act in Congress
Since 1935 Congress has blocked revisions and investigations. Roosevelt suggests the National Labor Board and both labor unions and employers meet to propose clarifications before next winter's decision.
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Congress
Roosevelt
National Labor Board
Labor
Clergyman Aids London Protest Over Chinese Bombings
Mary Sheridan Jones, assistant organizer of the London China campaign, enlisted a clergyman to protest the bombing of civilians in China after a Japanese military attache snatched an anti Japanese pamphlet from her outside the Nippon embassy in London. Miss Jones walks alongside her friend.
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Nippon
London
Mary Sheridan Jones
China Campaign Committee
China
Miss Jones
Death of J William Merryman Sr of Winchester
J William Merryman Sr born December 12 1855 in Winchester died in a Charleston West Virginia hospital Thursday evening at 7 16. He leaves a wife former Miss Nannie Baker two sons J W Merryman Jr of Merchantville New Jersey and George E Merryman of Charleston WV four grandchildren and a sister Mrs Ula Merryman of Keyser WV. Services will be held Saturday at 4 30 PM at the Mortuary Chapel Mount Hebron Cemetery with Rev Herman McKay officiating and pallbearers John Quick Sr George Eagle Edward Sartelle Stewart Fawcett Harry Willis and Louis Grimm.
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J. William Merryman
Charleston
W. Va
Merryman
Winchester
Nannie Baker
Rachel Baker
J. W. Merryman, Jr
Merchantville
N. J
George E. Merryman
Edwin H Maurer
Allentown
John P. Zigler
Jacksonville Pa
R. D. Shimp
Ephrata Pa
George Edward Merryman, Jr
Ula Merryman
Keyser
Mount Hebron Cemetery
Herman McKay
Market Street M. E. Church
John Quick
George Eagle
Edward Sartelle
Stewart Fawcett
Harry Willis
Louis Grimm
Minimum Prices Fixed For Milk in New York Market
A federal state marketing order setting minimum milk prices for the New York Metropolitan market was signed by Secretary Wallace and New York Agriculture Commissioner Holton V. Noyes. The order, supported by the Metropolitan Cooperative Milk Producers Bargaining Agency, affects over 60 000 dairymen across seven states serving the New York area, the world’s richest milk market.
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Washington
New York
Wallace
Holton V. Noyes
Metropolitan Cooperative Milk Producers Bargainine Agency
Nw York
Bomb explosion kills at least 20 in Jaffa market
A blast in a crowded Jaffa vegetable market killed at least 20 Arabs and wounded 74 as dawn broke. Police clashed with rioters while attacks on banks and Jewish pedestrians intensified. troops restored order after gunfire and fires. Five children died and seven others were gravely wounded.
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Jaffa
James A. Mills
Palestine
Bank II
Barclay’s Bank
Anglo-Palestine Bank
Tel Aviv
Haifa
Admiral Leahy to Launch Destroyer Lang
Admiral William D. Leahy heads to Kearny New Jersey to participate in the launching of the navy’s newest destroyer the U S S Lang Mrs Leahy will sponsor the vessel Lang named for Seaman John Lanz of New Brunswick New Jersey who distinguished himself in an 1812 engagement between the U S S Wasp and the Frolic.
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Washington
William D. Leahy
Naval Operations
Kearny
N. J
Navy
U. S. S. Lang
Leahy
Lans
John Lanz
New Brunswick
Groundwork for Closer Economic Ties Between Germany and Hungary
During Hungary's regent Nicholas Horthy state visit, officials said groundwork for closer economic ties is being laid. Bela Imredy, Hungarian premier, conferred with German economics minister Walther Funk and state secretary Rudolf Brinkmann to shape detailed negotiations for a nearer economic arrangement.
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Germany
Hungary
Ad Qral
Nicholas Horthy
Bela Imredi
Wis
Horthy
Walther Funk
Gennan
Rudolf Brinkmann
Navy awards contracts for Pearl Harbor harbor work and Annapolis chimney
The Navy granted a $900,000 harbor improvement contract at Pearl Harbor Hawaii to Standard Dredging Corporation of New York City and a $6,150 brick chimney construction contract at the Naval Academy Annapolis to M W Kellogg Company of New York.
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Washington
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Standard Dredging Corporation
New York Cty
Naval Academy, Annapolis
M. W. Kellogg Company
New York
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