Murray Proposes CIO AFL Peace Conference To Seek Unity
Pittsburgh August 3 14 Labor leader Philip Murray proposed reviving peace talks between the CIO and AFL to discuss possible organic unity. He urged Green to appoint a similar AFL committee and suggested a joint arbitration panel for jurisdictional disputes to avoid work stoppages while loyalty to the war effort remains. Green planned to issue a statement after the AFL executive council meets in Chicago.
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Judge Dick Dixon Named Major in U S Army
Aug. 3 report says Judge Dick Dixon, serving on the one-hundred sixteenth district court since January 1, 1927, was commissioned a major in the inspector general's department and ordered to report to Fort Sam Houston within two weeks. United Mine Workers and former C I O leader Murray are noted in connection with recent changes in the Tl. M. W. and a previous GC peace committee.
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Bernhard Aids Dutch Move To Oust Germans
London August 3 Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands leads preparations to oust the Germans and restore a right government in the Hague. An official announcement said Jefecon returned to Britain after conferring with Queen Wilhelmina in America.
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Ex Fort Worth Mayor Davis Dies After Illness at 74
Fort Worth Aug 3 UP A heart attack after a two year illness claimed the life of W W D Davis 74 former mayor of Fort Worth and elder North Fort Worth. He was an uncle of Mrs Thomas E Dewey wife of New York district attorney. Funeral at 4 pm today. The body will be sent to Sherman. In Chihuahua Mexico the Kansas City Mexico and Orient Railroad said a 160 mile link across the Sierra Madre to Topolobampo would be completed in nine months with the first train to Sherman tomorrow.
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Bill Davis
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Thomas E. Dewey
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Topolobampa
Nine ships sunk by subs raise total to 408
The Associated Press tally shows nine more Allied and neutral merchant ships sunk by submarines in the western Atlantic bringing the total to 408. A Russian cargo carrier was hit July 4 in the Gulf of Mexico marking the first Axis sub attack on a Soviet vessel in that region and the first female crew fatalities. A stewardess and a woman dishwasher died among twelve aboard, with doctor Anna Vorotnikova praised for her efforts. Survivors reached safety aboard a Swedish merchantman and U S naval vessel after 36 were saved. Three American ships, plus vessels from Brazil, Britain, Mexico, Panama, Nicaragua and Canada were among recent sinkings, with most losses off the U S East Coast and South America.
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Persia Swords On Exhibit At Witte Museum
Five Persian swords with gold inscriptions along the blades are on display at the Witte Museum this week. The exhibit is a gift from Myr Rena Moverink Green.
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Turkish envoy shoots himself in Turkey estate
Ali Haydar Aktay, former Turkish ambassador to Moscow and ambassador designate to Vichy, shot himself yesterday on his Turkish estate and died in the afternoon. He had served in Persia as a colonel of the fain fmm trunk since 1BL2. The report notes the weapons belonged to his brother-in-law, John Fulton Green, who had arranged funds to move money out of the country.
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