AFL Plan to Defeat Four GOP Senators in 1940 Drive
AFL director Joseph D. Keenan announced a cross party, million dollar campaign to defeat four Republicans Taft Capehart Donnell and Millikin and to reelect eight incumbents McMahon Myers Hill Pepper Morse Thomas Lucas and Aiken. The plan calls for two dollar assessments to fund the most intensive political effort in AFL history.
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Boston
American Federation of Labor
Joseph D. Keenan
Chicago
The
Labor Organization
Taft
Ohio
Capehart
Indiana
Donnell
Missouri
Millikin
Colorado
AFL
McMahon
Connecticut
Myers
Pennsylvania
Hill
Alabama
Pepper
Florida
Morse
Oregon
Thomas
Dutah
Lucas
Illinois
Aiken
Vermont
Keenan
Plains Welcomes Girlstown USA in Whiteface Texas
About 2000 locals attend events from Aug 4 to 7 in Whiteface to support Girlstown USA now housed on 1425 acres near Whiteface after relocation from Buffalo Gap. Funds from barbecue, rodeo, and street dance go to the girls home, with Amelia Anthony founder noting strong local cooperation and materials aid from unions and a building supply house.
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Whiteface
Texas
Girlstown
USA
Buffalo Gap
Lubbock
Plains
Amelia Anthony
Maerial
Damages Sought For Loss Of Legs In Tahoe Boat Incident
Imogene Wittsche, 16, of Roseville, files a $321,399.50 suit in El Dorado Superior Court against Phil Davis, Oakland dealer, over a June 27 Lake Tahoe boat accident that she says severed both legs. Davis faces a Sacramento federal charge of careless operation. trial set Sept. 27. Damages breakdown includes 250,000 for loss of limbs, 27,500 for lifelong care, 6,249.50 for medical debts, 22,650 for future hospitalization, and 15,000 for artificial limbs.
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Placerville
Calif
el Dorado Superior Court
Imogene Wittsche
Roseville
Lake Tahoe
Phil Davis
Oakland
Sacramento
Wittsche
Police Forestall Possible Attack On Jolting Joe DiMaggio
New York police detained a 30 year old woman who threatened to kill herself if Joe DiMaggio refused to date her. She had earlier tried to visit DiMaggio at his hotel and was later paroled to her father for psychiatric treatment. No action was taken as she violated no law.
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New York
Eddie Waitkus
Joe DiMaggio
New York Yankee
DiMaggio
Ruth Ann Steinhagen
Philadelphia Phillies
Chicago
Hoot Owls Invade Memphis Yard Prompt City Tips
Memphis residents flood Mrs. Armstrong with ideas to remove a dozen hoot owls roosting in a tree in their yard. Suggestions range from burning substances to poisoning rodents to steel traps, but authorities say shooting or sling shots are illegal and Mrs. Armstrong fears climbing the large tree.
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Memphis
Tenn
Armstrong
R. C. Armstrong
Armttorng
Man Returns $1518 Lost by Farm Youth
An 18-year-old Wise County farm youth lost his $1518 savings in a Fort Worth bus station washroom whileChange of buses Wednesday. M O Holland a retired Davidson Okla farmer found and returned the money. Grantham gave Holland a $100 reward for the honest gesture.
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Fort Worth
Wise County
Jessie Ray Grantham
Boonsville
M. O. Holland
Davidson
Oklo
Grantham
Holland
Blood Circulation Through Lungs Explains Vital Process
A medical note explains that the entire blood volume cycles through the lungs about 2,000 times daily, highlighting the lungs' central role in oxygen exchange and circulation.
57 Boys End Practical Study Of Forest Today in Kirbyville
In Kirbyville on August 4, fifty seven 4 H Club and FFA youths complete a forestry study begun Monday. They studied the E. O. Siecke State Forest under a large tabernacle, learning tree identification, sawlog and pulpwood estimation, and selection of trees for cutting following forestry practices. Bob Rhodes of the Texas Forest Service at A&M College led the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kirbyville
FFA
E. O O. Siecke State Forest
Bob Rhodes
Texas Forest Service
A&m College
Harris County Children Polio Victims
Three Harris County youngsters were admitted to Houston hospitals as polio victims. The new cases include an eight year-old girl and two nine-year-old children from different parts of Harris County.
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Houston
Harris County
Rice Farmer Admits Argument Before Train Tragedy
A 34-year-old rice farmer admitted he argued with 25-year-old Richmond waitress Dorothy Murchison before she was killed by a freight train two miles from Richmond. He reported she insisted on driving his car and later disappeared along the highway beside the tracks.
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Richmond
INS
Fort County
Dorothy Murchison
Rue Linceum
Santa Fe
H. B. Pringle
Carl W. Block Ob
Linceum
Bridges Seeks Answers on Wiretaps in Citizenship Suit
San Francisco August 4 Attorneys for Harry Bridges asked the government if wires were tapped in connection with the civil suit to revoke Bridges CIO Longshore leader United States citizenship. They filed 47 interrogatories seeking sworn answers and questioned FBI involvement.
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San Francisco
Harry Bridges
CIO
United States
Bridges
Federal District Court
FBI
Japs Expect To Reject Reds In Postwar View
Denver August 4 INS Tetsu Katayama former Japanese premier and Social Democratic Party leader says Japanese people will stay cold to Communism. He notes reports of communist inflation and POW repatriation into Japan are exaggerated and calls Japan a united country unlike Germany.
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Denver
INS
Tetsu Katayama
Japan
Katayama
Social Democratic Party of Japan
Gaux Switzerland
Siberia
Katayma
Germany
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McKinnon
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Congress
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Paaald
Reed
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