Berryville Clinches Valley League Title In Football
Berryville high school claims the Valley Athletic League football championship with a 9-1 record after defeating Stonewall 21-14. Boyce finished second. Stephens City beat Strasburg 42-14 to move toward the season finale.
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Stonewall
Hedgesville
Stephens City
Strasburg
Berryville High School
Bobcats
Boyce
C. £. Miley
Clarke
Bryant Harper
Clearbrook
Frederick County
Lemley
Alt
Pence
Rickard
Bursey
Pences
Coffman
McCurdle
Berryville
Rebels
Weague Champs
Feagans
White
Levi
Bodenschatz
Driver
Jast
Lloyd
Castleman
Stickles
Film Director Mervyn LeRoy to Wed Kathryn Spiegel
Hollywood reports director Mervyn LeRoy will marry Chicago socialite Kathryn Spiegel widow of Sidney Spiegel. The ceremony is tentatively set for February 1.
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Hollywood
Mervyn Leroy
Kathryn Spiegel
Chicago
Most Popular Painting at Carnegie Institute Show
The public chose a home scene of a farmer in straw hat and blue jeans strumming a guitar for his barefoot daughter as the top painting in Carnegie Institute's 194 show. Thomas H. Benson of Kansas City won. second was Tall Grass by John Rogers Cox and third Night Fall by N. C. Wyeth.
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Pittsburgh
Carnegie Institute
United States
Thomas H. Benson
Kansas City
John Rogers Cox
Terra Haute
Ind
N. C. Wyeth
Chadds Ford, Pa
Indians Present Truman Sweater Gifted in Canada
In Duncan British Columbia on December 3 the Cowichan Indians presented United States Consul Troy Perkins a hand-made sweater for President Truman. The ceremony drew about 900 whites and 100 Indians. A request accompanied the garment asking the President to accept the title meaning chief of peace.
Boxing and sports notes from wartime filigree boxing and college sports
A roundup of service boxing prospects including Al Hoosman facing Lee Savold and predictions by Nat Fleischer. Mention of Howie Brodt, Laverne Roach, Johnny Ebard, Marcus Lockman, and a GI chess article. Oregon U basketball aims for De Paul Tourney flight and Garden game.
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New York
al Hoosman
Wegiht
Jimmy Johnston
Lee Savold
St. Nick’s
Nat Fleischer
The
Ring Magazine
Fleischer
Howie Brodt
Laverne Roach
Johnny Ebard
Joe Louis
Marcus Lockman
Kid Chicken
Australia
New Guinea
Oregon U
Chicago
al Miller
Maine
Miller
Bob Garbark
Red Sox
Allegheny College
Meadville
India
Ski Club of India
Gulmurg
Kashmir
Softball souvenir sparks nostalgia at Madison Square Garden
A garden tale recalls a battered softball from girls' softball trials. Tom Lockhart received the ball from an American friend bound for Berlin as a US embassy attache. The ball served as camp entertainment in a German prison camp, was repaired by a camp doctor, and later returned to Lockhart.
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Madison Square Garden
Garden
Tom Lockhart
Berlin
Lockhart
Map of the United States and Territories
Printed in five colors on heavy paper this 21 by 28 inch map shows Alaska Aleutian Islands and detached territories. It includes railroad center distances state areas and populations plus ranks of the 200 largest cities. Fifteen cents postpaid by enclosing the coupon with payment.
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Alaska
Aleutian Islands
United States
Veterans of Foreign Wars chief warns of public apathy toward veterans
Joseph M. Stack national commander in chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars arrives in Kansas City for a five day meeting and says signs are apparent that many Americans are forgetting promises to the men in the armed forces. He cites growing public apathy toward veteran welfare and concerns that those not in wartime service question the veteran’s right to preferential treatment for civilian adjustment.
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Kansas City
Joseph M. Stack
Pittsburgh
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Stack
City and County Realty Transfers in Winchester
City and County Realty Transfers list transfers in Winchester with buyers and sellers, properties on Shawnee Shenandoah Stewart Cameron Loudoun Braddock Millwood Washington Kent streets, and cash values from 5 to 2,500 dollars. One item notes a contract of sale for 312 and 314 North Kent Street. The text ends with a Hollywood extra salary note about typical daily earnings for general and atmosphere extras.
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Winchester
Walter H. Grim
Hazel G. Dodson
Shawnee Ave
Ralph Lee Shade
Jane Margaret Gilightly
Shenandoah Ave
Nellie Browne Baker
S. G. Shendon
S. Stewart St
Grant T. Swibright
Lloyd M. Coffelt
S. Cameron St
F. L. Harris
Joseph F. Baylis, Jr
Woodland Ave
Hugh Brillet
Robert W. Wilt
S. Loudoun St
Ellen Hamilten Haines
Nora Davidson
N. Braddock St
Edward W. Armstrong
Herman I. Pifer
B. P. Harrison
J. Sean Kuykendall
S. Washington St
Helen M. Wilson
Carl W. Sirbaughetux
Millwood Ave
Sarah G. McKay
Charles H. Harper
Kent St
Hollywood
War talk on China and Europe shapes postwar world
Patrick Hurley says World War III looms in China with the communists losing ground as the Kuomintang reshapes occupation. Senator Johnson argues Russia cannot yet threaten if the US preserves its armed superiority amid de mobilization debates.
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Washington
States Army
South China
Chiang Kai Shek
Kuomintang
United Nations
Russia
Britain
We must seek peace with Russia and avoid war
The speaker argues the nation lacks aggression and must pursue a negotiated understanding with Russia. Appeal to diplomacy and Atlantic Charter ideals is urged, warning against appeasement and Communist pressure while stressing a genuine, American managed peace.
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Russia
UNO
China
Navy man points for wife question answered
The policy states men of the Navy are allotted points for a wife or any dependent. The allowed points total is over ten, and these points can be allocated to only one dependent.
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Navy
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