Texas Job Crisis Prompts Veterans Employment Drive
C. E. Belk, state director of the United States Employment Service, urged Texas communities to cooperate in a statewide campaign to secure work for veterans and displaced workers. He cited Texarkana with 13,000 unemployed and only 20 job vacancies, warning other cities near similar strain.
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Allied Hostages in Indonesian Hands?
Indiana Governor Ralph F Gates asked the State Department and the U S ambassador to the Netherlands to probe a report that hundreds of Allied prisoners were being held hostage by Indonesians in Java. The request followed a letter from Claude E Crow of Ossian Indiana claiming the U S had withdrawn and noting his son K J Crow a Navy patrol gunner missing since June 1945 in the Macassar Straits.
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Herbst Sets Speed Not Official Record In Jet Flight
Lt Col John Herbst, famed for downing 21 Japanese planes, flew a P-80 from Los Angeles Municipal Airport to San Diego at an average 640 mph. He did not land in San Diego but returned to March Field, and he notes this was not an official speed record.
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John Herbst
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Herbst
March Field
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Leonardo Da Vinci the Renaissance Polymath
Leonardo Da Vinci was a painter sculptor architect engineer musician anatomist inventor stage designer and mural philosopher, a multi disciplinary genius whose diverse pursuits shaped art science and design across Europe.
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Health Buried In the Wood Pile
PEN ARGYLE Pa Feb 8 Active William Tinney Allen celebrated his one hundredth birthday by chopping his daily wood quota. Woodchopping and serving as tax assessor keep his life lively. His formula for age is one day at a time avoiding worry daily exercise and avoiding liquor and tobacco. Friends gave him a shiny new axe as a birthday gift.
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William Tinney Allen
Stokowski Sees Himself As A Man Without Orchestra
United Press reports conductor Leopold Stokowski, former Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra chief, as a man without an ensemble as he navigates career uncertainties and questions about his future engagements and collaborations.
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United Press
Leopold Stokowski
Stokowski
Philadelphia Symphony Orchest
Farmer Captures Odd Animal Claimed as Racoon Bear Hybrid
A Clay City farmer reports trapping an unusual animal on his farm believed to be a cross between a raccoon and a bear. The creature reportedly shows traits of both species, drawing curiosity from locals in Brazil Indiana.
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Brazil
Havana lacks musicians for Beethoven Ninth in protest
Tra says he cannot assemble enough Cuban musicians for Beethoven Ninth in Havana on February 11. The Havana Philharmonic has players but won t let them perform for Stokowski. The conductor says the orchestra season is full, angering local music lovers.
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