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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1938
Page
9
The first home game of the season is set for 7 30 this evening at Hanley. Dunn returns from a minor injury and the starting five Baker Yeakle Sutton B Baker and Elder are in good shape after extra practice while exams limit some players.
Shenandoah Valley Academy defeated the So-Ath Club of Martinsburg 35 32 on the high school floor. Rhodes led Martinsburg with 14 points, Wojtkiewicz added 12 as the cadets, after five losses, played best as a unit and hit seven of nine fouls. They face St. Pauls School in Baltimore and George Washington High in Alexandria this weekend.
Hollywood roar from Lou Gehrig after 1938 contract read. Pompoon favored in Virginia Tech link. Sonja Henie radio bid. Joe McCarthy says Yanks stronger. Mount Pleasant Schenectady basketball run. spring signs with Profs Van Mungo and Joe Tinker at a baseball school. boxing license cost debate in Virginia. War Admiral expected in Florida. Loyola Centenary tied 67-67 in New Orleans. NC State spring practice grows to 67. Marshall Goldberg courted by multiple schools. multiple coaching offers amid football season chatter.
Gene Autry appears in Boots and Saddles at Hable's Palace Theatre Saturday only. Adventure at its highest peak with stirring songs and hot lead riding. Supplementing the feature Johnny Mack Brown stars in Wild West Days.
The Boyce team of the Evening Star Ladies' held Cammer Tires to a 3 game win streak, tying for second as the first half ends. Tonight's sweepstakes mark the start of the second half of the winter series with prizes in high score departments. Final standings listed nurses.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill advance the defense funding message as a presidential recommendation. The anti lynching filibuster persists in Senate while House debates appropriations for the District of Columbia and highway aid. A House session adjourns after the death of Rep Kenney Newark. Rep Steiner resigns.
The S P C A seeks the owner of a thoroughbred male English setter found wandering for several days. The dog is white with black markings and one black ear, no collar or tag. Report to 411 or 1182. if unclaimed, the society will arrange a home.
The funeral for Mrs. Josephine Baker Nott widow of Henry Nott will be held Sunday at 1 30 p m from Omps funeral home services conducted by Rev Robert B Nelson rector of Christ Episcopal Church Interment will be in the family lot at Mount Hebron Cemetery The Grey of Mrs Nott arrived here to assist with arrangements.
Vienna reports private advices from Athens say John Metaxas's grip on Greece has grown harsher. Former parliamentary leaders, dissolved in 1936, have been seized and interned on remote Greek islands, signaling a tighter autocratic rule.
The Lynchburg Virginia Chamber of Commerce traffic bureau filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission a brief opposing any rise in coal freight rates. Railroads seek a general freight rate increase of 15 percent.
The mysterious absence of Captain Lundberg Borch, 42, from the Norwegian freighter Nordward on a Baltimore to New York voyage prompted investigation by the ship’s charterers. No trace of the captain has been found as authorities explore the case.
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