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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1947
Page
7
The YW pool opens this year as part of Charleston’s 18 Red Feather agencies aiding summer life. You help make the VW pool possible with pledges to the Community Chest, so come in this evening when the water’s fine.
A humorous note urges residents to escape the heat by using the YWCA pool on Quarrier Street. The facility offers a daytime small fry swim from 2:45 to 3:30 and evening sessions, with mixed adult swimming Mondays and Fridays at 8, females only Tuesday through Thursday at 8.
The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to rehear its March 4 decision upholding $8000 in damages awarded to the estate of Henry Clay Tawney against Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and gas company driver M C Kirkhart. Rehearing was granted to both defendants individually in a Roane County case arising from a truck struck by a train near Big Chimney.
Secret meeting in New York revealed Joe Curran and Hoyt Haddock clashing with Harry Bridges over control of CIO maritime unions as contract talks with ship owners continue. Curran accuses Bridges of using Haddock to cause dissension while Murray seeks to prevent a shipping strike and legislative fallout.
The piece notes the parallels between U S policy and fascist law as dissenters fear concentration camp remarks while praising Roosevelt for signing the law. It observes revulsion at such a claim in the United States after years of wartime policy and notes silence from opponents of Japanese deportation at home.
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