U S Defends Use Of Wetback Hell Ship
Washington reports the Justice Department defended the use of a vessel called a hell ship to transport illegal Mexicans. The Mercurio, a World War II Corvette, carried 500 migrants with limited life boats and inadequate sanitation. Deputy AG Rogers said the ship was chartered with U S and Mexican approval and used to depart wetbacks who enter illegally to work on farms.
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Washington
Justice Department
Mexico
Robert H. “Mollohan
Immigration Service
Mollohan
House
Cient
Willam P. Rogers
U. S. Miliary Sea Transport Service
U. S
U.S
Gulf of Mexico
Port Isabel
Tex
Vera Cruz
Penitentiary Composer In Dutch Again
VINCE ES Ind. Frank Marion Grandstaff a 33 year old Fort Wayne man who wrote a 70 page cantata for a Texas centennial while confined in prison was to appear in court today on assault and battery charges. He was arrested here last Thursday and identified as the convict composer after two girls ages 14 and 22 accused him of improper advances. Grandstaff had composed the Big Spring cantata during his Tennessee prison term at Washville and was released in October 1949 after being sentenced as a habitual criminal and was to be guest of honor at the Big Spring centennial where he performed.
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Vince ES
Frank Marion Grandstaff
Fort Wayne
Texas
Grandstaff
Tennessee
Washville
Health Department Has Job Openings
Applications are being received by the Merit System Council for the Texas State Department of Health for competitive examinations to establish eligibility lists for public health vacancies. Special recruitment targets include administrative assistant, public health nursing consultant, junior sanitarian, junior veterinarian, administrative clerk, dental hygienist, and public health nurse.
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Austin
Merit System Council
Texas State Department of Health
Dental Divi
Mert
Littlefield Building
Texas
Professor who enjoys static in thunderstorm research
Dr. Leonard N. Liebermann, a Scripps Institution of Oceanography researcher, studies static electricity to gain data on distant thunderstorm activity. Using special equipment he can detect lightning strokes thousands of miles away, revealing global electrical activity from LAJOLLA California.
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LA Jolla
Calif
Leonard N. Liebermann
University of California
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Leiber Mann
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