Pre-War Views Shape Four State Elections
Primary returns across four states show pro war isolationist views dismissed as voters backed veterans and incumbents. In Ohio and New York clashes over prewar policy influenced nominations, while Nebraska saw a separate shift with Harry B. Coffee losing the senate race to Poster May and Kenneth S. Wherry winning the Republican nod. Governor Dwight Griswold captured the Republican designation in Nebraska as Charles W. Bryan pursued a Democratic bid.
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Prvsa
Hamilton Fish
Roosevelt
Fish
Pearl Harbor
Ohio
Martin L. Sweeney
House
Frank J. Lanache
Cleveland
Sweeney
Michael A. Feighan
New York
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Hal
Binghamton
Daniel A. Reed
Vital Marcantonio
American Labor Party
William
Barry
James 4
O’lesty
Martin J. Kennedy
Nebraska
Harry B. Coffee
Senate
Poster May
Omaha
George W. Norris
Kenneth 5. Wherry
Norris
Dwight Griswold
Charles W. Bryan
William Jennings T Bry
Literacy Tests For Army Based On Language Ability
A local draft board official notes the War Department shifted literacy determinations from draft boards to induction centers. Tests now assess understanding of simple English. some applicants feign illiteracy, but language barriers no longer justify exemption. Induction centers apply the literacy standard to admit men capable of basic orders.
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War Department
Draft Boards
Mit
Deide
Chinese Mission Hostess Church Meeting on Friday
A Chinese mission hostess meeting is planned for Friday at 10 a.m. at the Chinese mission on Sixth Street at Avenue B. The program includes Elizabeth Louie with a welcome address, Mrs. Ethel Young on the mission’s organization, the Wa chil dren violin duet, Mrs. Andis Ward on a gourdist topic, and Charles E. Plath speaking about the W.S.O.
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Council of Protestant Ghurehomen
Sixth Street
Avenue B
Elizabeth Louie
Ethel Young
Andis Ward
Charles E. Plath
Ourine Home Method Test for Hard of Hearing Used Since 1895
Wanted men and women who are hard of hearing. If temporarily deafened by wax buildup, try the Ourine Home Method test. Marketed since 1895 with over a million packages sold. Safe ingredients listed in the Lippincott or Pharmacopoeia. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Coats only a few cents daily. For sale by Sommers Drug Stores.
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Stany Say
Lt. &. Pharmacopeia
Sommers Drug Stores
Youths Admit Looting Of Downtown Stores
Two 15 year olds, arrested Saturday, confessed burglary of 11 downtown locations including the Esquire bar, Navarra club, Post Jewelry, Tiverside cafe, Gus Place and Reus confectionery. Police say other accomplices sought. loot mainly cash, cigarettes, candy and food items. Detective C A Bartram led the arrests.
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Esquire
Commerce Street
Navarra Club
Navarro
Commerce
Woney-Kist Ice Cream Company
Commerce and Sycamore
Post Jewelry Store
Jim Crow Rules Change Meet Site Moved to Indianapolis
The United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America announced its annual convention, set to begin Labor Day in Indianapolis, was moved from the city due to discriminatory rules against Negroes. The union, with about 400,000 members, said Indianapolis hotels refused to withdraw the rules. no new site was chosen. The five day convention typically hosts around 660 delegates.
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New York
United Electrical, Radio and Machhine Workers of America
Indianapolis
Truck Driver Dozes, Man Killed Near Dallas Crash
A Dallas man, H. Thomas, was killed when a heavily loaded truck veered out of control after the driver dozed for a few seconds. The accident occurred near Sengavine as the parked car Thomas occupied was struck.
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Sengavine
State G O P Nominates For Texas Governor and More
SAN ANGELO Aug 12 Delegates to a state Republican convention returned home after adopting a nine point platform and nominating candidates for November. Dudley Lawson was named for U S senator and C K McDowell of Del Rio for governor. Other nominees included B J Peasley for lieutenant governor Enoch Fletcher for attorney general W G McClain for railroad commissioner unexpired term Mrs Robert Osborne for state treasurer Mrs Earl H Baird for superintendent of public instruction. The platform opposed any interference with rapid production of war materiel for the Allies and the US to win the war quickly with minimal casualties.
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San Angelo
Dudley Lawson
Yuesteraay
U. 8
C.K. McDowell
del Rio
B. J. Peasley
Tyler
Enoch Fletcher
Grand Saline
The
Supreme Jeourt
John Beveridge
Borger
Court of Criminal Appeals
Ralph Curry
Dulles
Waxahachie
Robert Oseborne
Houston
Marines Enlist 16-Year-Old Amid Red Tape Waiver
In Chicago on August 12, the Marine Corps admitted Arthur J. Curry aged 16 after Washington waived the minimum age at his father Charles A. Gorey’s request. Gorey, a Woodstock justice of the peace and World War I marine hero, sought enlistment for Arthur alongside his 18-year-old brother Leroy.
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Smithereens
Bay Was & Marine
Arthur J. Curry
Washington
O'Daniel and Allred duel in Texas runoff campaign
Texas U S Senate runoff heats up as W L O'Daniel side campaigns across South Plains towns including Gresbyton and Merkel while rival James V Allred seeks gains in eastern cities. Wrather sworn as Marine lieutenant, story notes tensions over flour manufacturer influence and lingering partisan rhetoric.
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W. Lee O'Daniel
South Plains
Texas
U. S. Senate
James V. Allred
O'Daniel
Gresbyton
Post
Tahoka
Snyder
Roby
Merkel
Alfred
New Boston
Linden
Marshall
Tyler
Treasury reels from silver boom halting five cent coin plan
Treasury officials canceled a proposed five cent coin made from a 50 50 silver and copper mix due to rising silver prices. Jewelers paying up to 72 cents per ounce risk profit from melting coins. no coins issued. Mint designs evolving to reduce metal content. Old 25 percent nickel and 76 percent copper nickels halted since March per war production orders. Machinery for a new rolling mill at Monclova, Coahuila, reported installed by Governor Lopez Padilla to President Avila Camacho.
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Washington
Treasury
Coby
War Production Board
Mexico City
Beneca Lopez Padilla
Coahuila State
Avila Gantneno
Monclova
Mexico
Nazis Attack Religion Prompts Clash of Faith and Regime
The inter Allied Information Committee reports a long range Nazi plan to erase religion in conquered lands urging a choice between Christ or the Nazi rule. It catalogs persecution in Czechoslovakia Poland and occupied Russia with rapid suppression in Belgium the Netherlands France and Luxembourg.
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Lonoun
inter-Allied Informaton Committee
Europe
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Russia
Belghum
Metherlands
France
Luxembourg
Frank in Chile after persona non grata row
Waldo Frank, American writer and lecturer, who was attacked in Argentina after being declared persona non grata, arrived in Santiago Chile by plane from Buenos Aires yesterday.
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Chile
Santiago
Waldo Frank
Argenta
Buenos Aires
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