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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1938
Page
10
New York reports the American Olympic committee accepted Finland's invitation to the 1940 Helsinki Games and the Winter Games at St Moritz. A meeting estimated budgets for 136 athletes plus 21 committees at $85,000 for travel, coaches, trainers, doctors, managers and chaperones.
Secretary Hull aims to broaden reciprocal trade agreements at the Pan American Conference. While aboard the S S Santa Clara en route to Lima, he rededicates to boosting trade among the Americas during a stop in Guayaquil Ecuador.
Mr E D Startzman is convalescing at his home on Gray Avenue after an appendicitis operation at Winchester Memorial Hospital several weeks ago.
Notre Dame, despite a 13 0 setback to Southern California, is ranked by Frank G. Dickinson as the nation’s strongest team. He assigns Notre Dame 27.72 points based on the strength of its opponents, with Duke 27.10 and Tennessee 26.68 in the top three.
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was unanimously elected vice president of the Maryland Jockey Club after President Charles E. McLane resigned due to ill health. Vanderbilt, 26, becomes the youngest head of the nation’s oldest racing organization.
In Boston on December 6 the Association of New England Colleges for Conference on Athletics announced plans to send a searching questionnaire to all local colleges. President R G Bressler of Rhode Island State College urged scrutiny of athletes from outside 100 miles, noting 28 colleges attended the meeting.
The featherweight championship becomes a wide open affair as Petey Scalzo of New York stops Joey Archibald of Pawtucket in two rounds. Archibald remains recognized by the New York State Athletic Commission and the National Boxing Association pending a title bout winner. The rest of the text details probate matters in Virginia involving Shirley Carter and estate distributions, master commissioner duties, and notice to interested parties.
In the Corporation Court of Winchester Shenandoah Valley National Bank as executor under Shirley Carter decd and other heirs the matter is referred to Master Commissioner Harry R Kern Jr to report on Carter estate real and personal property. The report includes partition, sale plans, and distribution of proceeds among beneficiaries.
A scrambled OCR style crossword includes across clues like 8 A useless and 23 A bounding obnoxious in nuts plant with many mismatched fragments. It lists down clues such as 31 A luminous and 22 A kind of and references a Great Fire 1871. Copied from a 1938 King Features Syndicate publication with garbled formatting and partial entries.
The final AP poll shows Texas and other southern teams near the top, with Notre Dame dropping from first to fifth after a 13 0 loss to Southern California. Tennessee rises to second after routing Mississippi, while Oklahoma climbs to fourth by defeating Washington State in a dramatic game.
Pitt alumni and undergraduates debated Chancellor John G Bowman’s assertion that the university cannot offer athletic scholarships but that worthy players may receive outside financial aid. The statement sparked discussion on campus as a possible way to clarify the status of Bowman's strictly amateur athletics code adopted about a year ago.
Radio Today notes Phil Baker ends radio absence with a January 14 return on WABC CBS starting his 11th season. John Royal of NBC heads for Lima Peru to oversee NBC schedule during Pan American Congress. Overseas salutes to the New York World’s Fair will air 16 Sundays from January 1 on NBC CBS and MBS networks.
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