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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-01-01
April

April
Henry Ford, SO, auto manufacturer.
l3-Benny Leonard, 81. former world light
weight boxing champion.
20-King Christian X of Denmark, rs.
24-Willa Gather, 70, famous novelist.
May
4-Martin J. insult, rs. brother of Samuel
and himself a utilities magnate.
16-Sir Frederick c. Hopkins 86, biochemist
who discovered vitamins.
27-Brg Gen Evans F. Carlson 81, marine
hero leader of "CarlsOns raiders"
William A. Morgan, rs. financier MEM
Der of House of Morgan" investment
31-Adrienne Ames. 80. actress and radio
commentator.
June
11-David I. Walsh "a former u S. senator
and governor of Massachusetts.
22-Jim Tully IS, novelist and screen writer.
July
12-Rep. Joseph ]. Mansfield, Sc, Texas con.
gresham since 1916 and oldest member
2e-Mrs. Martha E Truman, "a. President
Trumans mother.
August
4Gipsy R. Smith, 81, noted evangelist.
21-Sen Theodore C. Bilbo, SO, U. S. senator
from Mississippi. 1935-47.
September
20-Fiorello H. La Guardia, ga, former con-
gresham from New York state, mayor
of New York City and director general
of UNRRA.
October
17-Arthur Hyde. 70. former secretary of
agriculture, former governor of Mis-
souri,
30-Gov. Earl Smell of Oregon. So.
November
4-John G. Winant. SO, former ambassador
to England.
22-James J. Davis. IA. secretary of labor,
192l-30
December
7-Dr. Nicholas NJ. Butler, 85, president
emeritus of Columbia u
Joseph T. Ryerson. 81, steel magnate.
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October

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24-Fifty.tWo killed when transport plane
crashes in Bryce Canyon. Utah.
25-Forest fires in Maine kill II, destroy
many homes. Fires rage throughout
northeastern states.
26-Transport hits mountain in Alaska. kill
ing IS.
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August

10-William Odom OF Roslyn. N. Y, flies
around world in record 73 hours. cover
ing 19,645 miles.
1l-Sensational Hughes investigation by SEN
ate committee probing army airplane
contracts suddenly adjourned.
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crlck, returned Wednesday, after
spending the vacation at her home
here.
Guests at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Holman ST., on Christmas day
were Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Holman
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January
5-Ovington F.. Weller, "a,
former u. S. senator from
Maryland.
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March

Truman, the Presidents
daughter, sings on radio in debut with
Detroit symphony.
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and family, of Waynesboro, Va; John
Walker Holman and family, Union
town, Pa; and Harry Holman, Johns
Hopkins university
Christmas dinner guests Of Mrs. J.
j. Friend and daughter, Nellie, We're
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March

3-President Truman visits Mexico on good.
will mission.
Gu. S. Supreme court finds John L. Lewis
and United Mine Workers guilty of civil
and criminal contempt in coal strike of
November, 1916.
12-President outlines Truman Doctrine"
on Europe and blasts Russian agrees
sion.
18-Cash wheat hits 3O.year high of S3.O5 a
bushel in Chicago.
19-Georgia supreme court rules Melvin E.
Thompson is legal governor of state.
3l-Many war power acts expire automati-
ca1y, including seective service, CPA
controls on steel, resins, textiles. solid
fuels administration, transportation re.
strictions of ODT, and others.
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higher on hogs and calves.
Hogs, $2330 to $2S.80: Pigs and
Shoats. $500 to 500. so per head.
Calves, $1325 to $32.75. .
Bulls. $500 to $3.50; Cows, $40
to $1,000; Steers. S12.75 to $3.50;
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February

2-Premier Alcide de Gasperi forms new
Italian cabinet composed Of coalition Of
Christian Democrats and Leftists.
4-Anglo-Arab conference on Palestine ad-
journs in failure. as Arabs reject parti-
ton plan.
7-British military government Of Germany
announces plan to free 900 of the
] 500 900 NaZi suspects in zone.
First legal Polish cabinet since war
formed by Josef CyrankieWicz. Ten key
positions held by Communists or Social
lists.
20-British announce withdrawal from India
before June, 1913.
25-Foreign ministers end London confer.
ence, with little Roadway on peace
treaties for Austria and Germany.
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Mr. and Mrs. Daley Groves, Con-
nellsville, Pa. Mr.. and Mrs. w. H.
Burnside and children, Hopwood, Pa;
Nh and Mrs. Allen Friend and daugh-
ter, of Denbo, Pa; and Mr.. Clarence
Friend, of Allison, Pa.
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October

6-New York Yankees win World series.
18-Army's record Of 80 football games
without defeat broken by Columbia.
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September

2-Inter.American treaty of reciprocal as
sistance signed by delegates of 10 North
and South American nations at Rio de
Janeiro.
6-Rioting sweeps India. with thousands
of fatalities.
22-European nations ask 22Is billion dollars
in aid under Marshall plan.
29-Arab Higher Committee of Palestine
tells u. N. commission Arabs will fight
TO keep Palestine an Arab-controlled
state
3O-Greek government reports 45,214 Greek
civilians and 1000 soldiers and police
men killed by rebels since October, 1914
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January

EssstEEs guarantees independence
of Trieste
11-Chinese civil warfare continues 10 rage.
lj-Truce becomes effective between French
troops and native rebel forces IN French
Indo-China.
19-Poand holds first election for parliament
tary Offices since 1885.
2l-Paul Ramadier chosen new premier OF
France. New cabinet leans 10 left. but
not Communism.
gu. S. abandons efforts 10 mediate
Chinese civil strife.
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March

12-Martin Ortiz takes bantamweght title
from Harold Dade in Los Angeles.
15-Wilie Hoppe retains world three-cushion
billiards Championship.
Ted Edwards and William Lingelbach
win U. S. court tennis doubles.
22-Joseph Verdeur sets new record for
220-yard breaststroke. 2:l6.4 in Eastern
intercollegiate Swimming league
25-Utah defeats Kentucky, 40 to As, to
win National Collegiate basketball title
29-Gil Dodds runs fastest indoor mile
4:068 in Chicago.
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9-Cyclotron at University of California
produces non.eXplosive hssion of tanta-
ium, thallium, platinum. lead and bis
muth Scientists also discover diamonds
are radio-sensitive and make excellent
counters of radio.activity.
18-Department of agriculture reports that
10 cents OF every consumer dollar spent
on meat now goes to farmer, compared
with 81 cents in 1889.
27-"Radac" (rapd dgital automatic COM
putation) may be basis of defense for
rocket weapons, reports Presidential Sci
entiic Research board.
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October
November
December

7-Dr Nicholas NJ. Butler, IS, president
emeritus of Columbia U.
Joseph T. Ryerson. 81. steel magnate.
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L. S. EVANS STOCK YARD
Terra Alta. West Virginia
Market Report, December 26, 1947
Today's receipts were very light.
Market was good and prices were
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-01-01
August

Alike Williams knocks out Bob Montgom.
cry in Philadelphia to become light
weight chan pion of world.
12-VictOry Song sets new world record for
trotterS by running mile in 1:57 3/5
minutes, in Springfield. Ill.
2l-D. Lee Braun of Dallas, Tex, wins pro.
fessional North American clay target
championship in Vandalia. Ohio.
22-Wille Pep retains featherweght title
by defeating Jock Leslie in Flint Mich
College All-Stars beat Chicago Bears
pro football squad in Chicago, 100.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-01-01
August

AAhSNoh
1-U. N. atomic energy commission re.
leases six papers on atomic control
plans. Russia rejects proposals.
15-india becomes free of foreign rule as
British relinquish powers. Two sover-
eign states. Dominion of India and
Pakistan. govern most of huge land.
2l-Russian vetoes keep Italy Austria,
Transjordania. Fire. Portugal from u
N. membership.
23-Government of Ecuador seized in blood
less coup by defense minister Col. Car
los Mancheno.
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February

1O-U. S. signs peace treaties ending war
with Italy Bulgaria, Hungary. Finland
and Romania.
12-U. S. and Canada agree to continue war
time collaboration for 'peacetime joint
security purposes"
U. S. Naval expedition fiiers discover
ice-free oasis 40 miles wide in Ant
arctic continent.
gu S cooperates with Mexico in cam
pagn to control hoof-and.mouth disease
outbreak.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-01-01
October

5-Communist parties of nine European
nations form "Cominform," revived
Comintern.
19-French anti-Communist party, Charles
deGaulle's RPF, replaces Communists
as largest French party.
gu. N. establishes permanent Balkan
"border-watch" committee to cover
Greece. Yugoslavia. Bulgaria and Al.
bana
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-01-01
February

Irrational Collegiate Athletic association
bans running shift among football rule
changes.
12-Charles Trippi, pro football star signs
to play baseball with Atlanta club
21-Hank Greenburg signs with Pittsburgh
Pirates for $50 .00O
23-Gus Lesnevich, light heavyweight
champion knocks out Billy Fox in title
bout in New York.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-01-01
April
s-commissioner Happy Chandler suspends

APTII
9-Commissoner Happy Chandler suspends
Leo Durocher. Brooklyn baseball club
manager, for 1947 season.
15-Joe Baski, American heavyweight fight
er defeats Bruce Woodcock, British
champion, in London.
Baseball season opens, Brooklyn is man.
aged by Burton Shotton.
26-Texas IT, takes top honors in Drake re-
lays in Des Moines, Iowa Illinois leads
in Penn relays in Philadelphia.
27-'Babe Ruth Day observed at all ball
parks in u. s. and Japan.
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October
alton drive launched by

Food conservation drive launched by
President.
10-First war dead arrive at San Francisco.
23-President calls congress for emergency
session on November IT.
24-Distillers begin 6O-day shutdown to save
grain.
30-U. s. justice department files anti
trust suit against II investment bank
ing companies.
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November

3-Dealers blame rumors of nylon stock
ing shortage on radio commentators
and newspaper coumniStS.
11-Russia reported TO have exploded atomic
bomb in tests; u. S. scientists doubt
possibility.
19-Decommissloned battleship New Mexico
reaches jlinkyard in Newark, N. j., for
scrapping, after week of ludicrous bat
Ting with fireboats and writs.
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August

19-More than third (35 per cent? OF veter.
ans who entered college under G.I. bill
of rights have dropped out Of school,
VA reports.
23-New minor planet discovered by Uni
versity of California. II is 10 miles in
diameter, 1856 million miles from sun.
30-Radio tube almost as small as a grain
of rice" developed.
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S.! 2 @ e Z S

Rose Bowl, Illinois as,
U. c. L. A. IA: Sugar
Bowl, Georgia 20. North Carolina 10;
Cotton Bowl, Arkansas 0, Louisiana
State, o. Orange Bowl. Rice 8, Ten
nessee 0. Shrine game, West All-Stars.
Is, East g.
17-Charles Trippi, u of Georgia football
star, signs with Chicago Cardinals pro-
fessional football club. He will receive
500, 900 for four years of play
21-Bob Feller, Cleveland Indians pitcher,
signs contract calling for $50 900 plus
bonus for 1947 season.
25-Gn Dodds runs Knights of Columbus
mile in Boston in record 409.1.
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November

3-British and Scotch elections turn to
conservative side as Labor and Com
munist parties lose ground.
8-Britain forced to ration potatoes.
13-U. N. creates Little Assembly, to act
during recess of main body.
Reconnaissance riots and strikes
sweep France and Italy.
17-U. N. accept Geneva trade agreement
signed by % nations.
20-Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and 1t
Philip Mountbatten in London draws
worldwide interest.
24-Strikes in France and Italy fail, as
workers return to jobs
gu. N. partitions Palestine into Jewish
and Arab states.
December
Gu. S forbids shipment of arms to Pales.
tine.
9-Russa breaks off trade pact discus.
sion with France.
12-General strike grips Rome; Commun.
lists march on city.
15-Soviet government revaues Russia
curreny.
16-London Big Four foreign ministers par.
ley ends in failure; Secy. of State Mar.
shall blames Russia for collapse.
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November

4-Democrats regain state control in Ken
lucky by electing Earle c. Clements
governor.
8-President's advisory committee says U.
S. must give Europe five and three
quarter billion dollars in aid in 1913.
13-Gov. Earl Warren of California enters
Republican presidential race.
17-CongreSS convenes on Presidents call
to deal with European aid. initiation.
20-Charles Luckman resigns as chairman
of citizens food committee.
25-RObert +. Hannegans resigns as post
master general; succeeded by James
A. Donaldson. former first assistant
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November
December
ID ON ES.T.!.lC.

2 &. January
G-President Truman en-
l phasizes five major
problems-strikes bust
ness monopolies, housing. taxes and ag-
ricultura prosperity-in annunl state
OF the union message.
10-President submits budget totaling 37i2
billion dollars.
21-Gen. George Marshall succeeds James
Byrnes as secretary of state.
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.RI..AIN,. No.

r d January
EtsSS ~ 49, 15-Ford Motor company re-
EkfsES fht22riEsa duces prices on pasSen-
ger cars SIS to $50 in ef-
fort ito halt insane spiral of mounting
costs and rising prices
23-Potato growers authorized TO dump 20
million bushels of lnW-grade potatoes
stored under government price.support
plan.
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April

April
7-Telephone workers launch nationwide
strike as $40. 900 employees of Bell sys-
tenn leave jobs.
9-David Liienthal confirmed as head OF
Atomic Energy commission after heated
senate wrangle.
2l-President warns of initiation dangers and
pleads for voluntary price cuts.
3O-Military court cOnvicts Col. Jack Durant
of theft of Hesse jewels while serving
in Germany. and imposes l5-year sen.
tence.
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JAig
2-Big Three conference in Paris on Mar.
shall plan ends in failure on Russian
objections
15-Paris economic conference establishes
lG.nation organization for European
economic cooperation under Marshall
plan
2O-Dutch forces, with air support, attack
Indonesian Republic installations on
Java and Sumatra. claiming breach of
truce.
2s-Protests on undeclared war in Neither.
lands East Indies pour into U. N.
29-Russian u. N. delegate Gromyko vetoes
u. S. resolution to set up two-year
frontier commission in Balkans.
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September

1-President and Mrs. Truman visit Brazil
on 20.day goodwill mission
14-Army imposes complete ban on news of
biological warfare developments.
25-Gen. Carl SpaatZ named air force chief
of staff.
28--Farm income scars IL per cent in past
year while operating costs jump l6 per
cent. department of agriculture report
discloses.
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May
l-Round of threatened strikes in steel and
heavy manufacturing industries settled
by raises of 10 to Is cents per hour.
l4-Prcsident signs bill to eliminate most
portal-to-portal pay suits.
20-Last major telephone workers strike
ends.
Newburyport Mass. merchants abandon
voluntary price cut campaign.
2l-NaVy accepts new jet-propelled fighter
plane, carricr-based XF2D.l. with speed
of 600 mpn.
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June


1-Commssion on universal military train.
ing issues stern warning on dangers of
swift humiliation in atomic war without
a huge army. extensive defensive or
ganization.
u-President reasserts doctrine of main
tanning world peace by helping weak
nations
l7-House fails by two votes to override
presidential veto of income tax reduc.
ton bill.
23-TaftHartley bill becomes law as con.
gress overrides presidential veto.
30-President signs rent control bill, continu-
ing modified controls until March l. 1913.
July
Is-Senate sustains presidential veto of in.
come tax reduction bill
President signs presidential succession
bill placing speaker of house first in line.
25-Sixty wartime emergency powers ended
and termination dates set for 1874 others.
26-Bill approved to unity armed forces.
Legislation passed permitting cashng of
veterans terminal leave bonds.
27-James Forrestal appointed to newly
created post secretary of national de-
tense.
Eightieth congress ends first session.
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May
3-Jet Pilot wins Kentucky Derby in
2;06 AS; PhlanX second. Faultless. third.
4-National womenS senior A. A. u.
championship swimmer meet in Seattle
won by Crystal Plunge club of San
Francisco Ann Curtis takes individual
honorS.
17-U. S. golf team regains Walker cup at
st. Andrews, Scotland.
30-Mauri Rose wins annual 500 mile auto
race at Indianapolis with average speed
of 1863 miles.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-01-01
October

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5-BeuIah Overell and George Bud Col.
lum acquitted on charge of numbering
Beulah's parents In yacht explosion.
3O-Plot to obtain atomic bomb secrets re-
vealed In senate inquiry into Hollywood
communism.
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March

1-Chnese Communist troons open large
scale offensive against Changchun.
4-Greek government appeals 10 U. $. for
immediate aid.
8-Jewish underground forces battle Brit
ish soldiers in Palestine.
14-U. S. and Philippines sign treaty grant.
ing u S. 99-year leases FOR naval bases.
24-Dutch and lndonesians sign treaty rec
ognizing Indonesian Republic. with SOW
ereignty by January !, 1893.
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Nav

May
6-Outbreak of infant diarrhea in Philadel-
phia area causes deaths of q babies.
29-Forty-tWo killed when DC-4 airliner
crashes after take-of at La Guardia
field New York. Seven survive.
3O-DC-4 airliner crashes near Fl. Deposit.
Nd, killing all So on board. Two crash
es rank as worst air disasters in U. S.
history.
3l-Tornado strikes Leedy. Okla, wrecking
town, killing 6.
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>) January
"a SSEf .# 5-Ovington f. Weller, "a.
former u. S. senator from
Maryland.
7-Charles S. woolworth. 90. one of found.
ers of store chain
l1-Eva Tanguay. Go. famous vaudeville
2O-Andrew J. volstead. 81. former Mime.
sofa congressman who introduced 1919
prohibition act.
26-Grace Moore as opera, radio and
screen star in air crash.
27-Paul P. Harris. rs, founder of Rotary In
ternational
February
3-Adm. Marc A Mitscher. so. hero of both
World Wars.
60. Max Gardner. ga. U. S. ambassador
to England.
15-Harry K. Thaw. rs, wealthy playboy
who shot Stanford White.
March
9-Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait So. woman
suffrage leader.
I7-William c. Durant. s. founder of Gen.
eral Motors corporation.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-01-01
February

4-Largest narcotic seizure in nine years
made in New York when federal agents
find $3.50 600 worth OF heroin in posses
sion of u. s. seaman returning from
France.
7-Coldest temperature ever recorded on
North American continent 81 degrees
below zero, registered at Snag airport
in Canadian Yukon.
12-Navy discloses new rapid fire cannons
installed on heavy cruiser Newport
News are fully automatic eight-inch
rifles with three times frepower of pre-
Vious armament.
16-Survey shows average teachers salary
in U. S. is S37 weekly. and $50 900 teach
ers have left schools since 1910.
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June
ll-New secret weapon" called as effec.
tive as atom bomb but cheaper TO make.
announced by Prof T. d. J. Leech of
New Zealand II reputedly is some kind
of electrical death ray
2tFreak snowstorm in Northumberland
border region piles up l5-foot drifts.
Three workmen smothered in snow
buried truck.
28-Gencral Eisenhower declares u. s.
army Is now "a poor second to Rus
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September

3-Labor day weekend takes death toll of
ass, compared with 457 in 1916.
11-Twenty killed when excursion boat blows
up at Pittsburgh dock.
20-Hurricane sweeps in over southern Flor
ida, crosses Gulf of Mexico, strikes
Louisiana. Mississippi and Arkansas.
Toll: 100 killed, many injured, property
loss of IS to 80 million dollars.
21-Flood following hurricane browns 81 in
New Orleans area.
29-Fire on New York City pier results in
injuries to 144 fremen, five million dol
lar loss.
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December

5-Ten movie writer's, producers and d.
rectors indicted for contempt of con-
gress in Red probe.
11-Secretary Marshall denounces Russian
slurs on U. S. in London.
12-Open congressional investigation of
grain speculation of Edwin Pauley,
army department official
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-01-01
July

july
5-"Flying discs" reported by airlines crew
over Emmett. Ida. leads TO frenzy OF
similar stories of discs over other states.
1l-Employment In U. S. passes GO million,
figure set as ideal by Henry Wallace.
27-Gallup poll reports 81 per cent Of voters
would vote for Truman for President.
40 per cent for Dewey.
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June
3-Honeymoon sets new world record for
seven furlong race of 1921 AS minutes
at Hollywood Park, Calf
Lloyd Marshall of Cleveland knocks out
British light heavyweight champion IN
London
15-Lew Worsham wins national open golf
title by one stroke at St. Louis.
18-Harvard rowing crew defeats Yale in
historic race al New London. Conn
Ewell Blackwell of Cincinnati Reds
pitches first no-hit game of season
against Boston Braves in Cincinnati.
21-U. of Illinois retains National Collegiate
Athletic association championship in
meet at Salt Lake City.
29-Betty Jameson wins U. S. womens
open golf title in Greensboro, N. c.
July
8-American League wins AIl.Star base.
ball game in Chicago, 2-1.
16-Rocky Graziano defeats Tony Yale to
win worlds middleweght boxing title.
21-Schooner Dolphin. II wins Calfornia-to.
Hawaii yacht race in II days, 1:O4
minutes. Sloop Cara Mia captures
Observation-Disclosures race in 80 hours,
5:46 minutes.
29-Gus Lesnevich. light heavyweight box
ing champion. outpoints Tami Mauriel-
10, heavyweight in non-title bout in New
York.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-01-01
February

1s-Twenty.one killed, 1913 injured when
train plunges over 150.foot embark
ment in Allegheny mountains near AL
toona, Pa.
2O-Expiosion of tank in electroplating fac
tory in central Los Angeles kills 10, IN
jures 1853. demolishes area half mile
square.
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7-Oklahoma State Sen. Thomas Anglin shot
in hip by State Rep. James Scott in
senate chamber. Scott is adJudged in
sane.
17-Stocl: market prices slump TO lowest
point since January. 1915. on reports of
buyer resistance and slowing business
activity.