Action on Gambling Ship Off Southern California Coast
An on board report from the U S Rex details nightly gambling cruises off Santa Monica with 70 passengers per trip and 2 000 aboard at full capacity. Tony Cornera Stralla presides over games with dozens of slot machines dice tables and roulette while officials claim a public service with most proceeds returned to players.
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California
United Press Hollywood
Rex
Tony Cornera Stralla
Frederick C. Othman
United Press
Hollywood
Santa Monica
Los Angeles
Fletcher Bowron
U. S
Stralla
Tony
Kidleworth
Boston
Falmouth
England
Fara Bank
United States
Stralin
Infantile Paralysis Threatens Rural Areas
Boston reports from Harvard scientists warn that poliomyelitis is invading rural communities after urban immunity. They say prevention and treatment remain inadequate and serum therapy is not practical, though understanding factors behind paralysis could improve control. A chemical blockade nasal spray was suggested as a research avenue but has not proven successful.
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Boston
Harvard
Charles F. McKhann
W. Lloyd Aycock
Aycock
Broadcast Schedule and Staffing Note for KWK Station
A detailed daily hour by hour listing of KWK and related station programs runs from 5:59 a.m. to beyond 8 p.m. with shows including Early Birds Breakfast News Morning Devotional and Bandstand. The text ends with a note that salaries for 350 employees are higher, claiming the station is an asset to merchants who support it and that it circulates money.
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KWK
CEWEK
Grady Cantrell
KWEK
EWE
BWR
Dave Wright
KWR
KWH
St. Louis Cardinals
Brooklyn Dodgers
Driver returns $1,000 found in suit at dry cleaner
In Perrysburg Ohio Harold Stanford, a driver for a local dry cleaning shop, found a suit containing $1,000 and promptly returned the money to the owner. In Vermont, Alfred F Villemaire, sole state maker of smelt and perch sinkers, runs a 35 year one man business from a shed behind his house in Winooski.
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Sult Perrysburg
Harold Stanford
Winooski
Alfred F. Villemaire
Vermont
Police Disperse Hangers-On in Labor Dispute Flint
In Flint Michigan state police cleared from Fisher Body Plant area a mass of CIO and AFL UAW followers who gathered amid a General Motors strike dispute. About 300 CIO armbanded workers sang and clashed with authorities before the streets were cleared. Organizing factions remained tense yet the day showed reduced picket presence and a claimed settlement by Homer Martin. The CIO called the AFL action a face-saving move to mask inability to strike effectively.
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Flint
Mich
Michigan
General Motors
Homer Martin
United Auto Workers Union
AFL
Uvaw-Cio
Martin
Genesee County
Fisher
CIO
Hach
UAW
King and Queen Finish Stayn North America
King George and Queen Elizabeth capped a 30 day, 9 401 mile tour of Canada and the United States arriving in Halifax Nova Scotia to embark tonight for Newfoundland. Thousands lined routes as the royal couple were greeted in every maritime province with a grand reception. They spent their last night on a siding near Truro after 22 nights on the sleeping train.
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Halifax
Nova Scotia
King George
Queen Elizabeth
Canada
United States
Newfoundland
England
Maritime Provinces
Quebec
Truro
Citadel
Rideau Hall
Ottawa
Banff
Victoria
Jasper National Park
White House
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Roosevelt urges fearless public discussion by women
President Roosevelt said in a letter that a full and fearless discussion of public questions by American women is essential for democracy. The message, released as a two day regional conference for Democratic women opened in New York City, was addressed to Mrs. Thomas F. McAllister, director of the party’s Women's Division.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Thomas F. McAllister
Democratic National Committee
New York City
President Urges Council of American Womanhood for Democratic Strength
The President writes that practical reform is possible through organization and education and that women have deep and vital interest in all issues. He states no problem has a satisfactory solution today without the council and cooperation of American womanhood and that enlightened public opinion preserves democracy.
Rail society names new state chairman
D B Butler of Kansas City was named state chairman of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen at the group's thirty fourth annual convention in Hannibal Missouri Other officers include J E Baker of Springfield as first vice chairman Grover C Resserger of Trenton as second vice chairman O E Bugh of St Louis as secretary treasurer and A E McNeal of Marceline as assistant secretary treasurer Trenton was selected to host the 1940 meeting.
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Hannibal
D. B. Butler
Kansas City
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Brotherhood
J. E. Baker
Springfield
Grover C. Resserger
Trenton
0. E. Bugh
St. Louis
A. E. McNeal
Marceline
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Mss
Peggy Saga
Axe
Brandenberger
Mayer
Mayer’s Hardware
E. High St
Ray Schmidt
United Auto Workers
Mexico
Noix Creek
Louisiana
James W. Woods
Wallace Woods
Walt
Emerson
Emersonette
Philco
Iron Core
Philes
Milc H. Walz
WALZ
Madison
E. Dunklin
North America
Great Britain
FOR
Rail Society
New State
Herman’s
Cool Batiste
Seersucker
Herman
Jefferson City
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