Federal Aid Favored by County Teachers
The Bexay county Teachers' association adopts a resolution in favor of federal aid to education. President J. Marshall Bury cites the need to equalize opportunities across the U S, quoting M. B. Lamar on the cultivated mind guarding democracy. S G Boynton chairs. Henry Metzger and W W Few helped draft.
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Bexay County
Asign
J. Marshall Bury
M. B. Lamar
U. S
S. G. Boynton
Henry Metzger
W. W. Few
Two Taxi Drivers Dead as Mexico City Hackmen Strike
Two taxi drivers were killed and forty wounded when police assaulted the headquarters of Mexico Citys 5000 striking hackmen. About 800 cabmen were jailed amid the clash as Light Want Ads ran large.
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Mexico
Mexico City
Jay
Stovepipe Fire Hazard Threat in San Antonio Homes
San Antonio reports stovepipes protruding through walls in over 2000 small homes posing a fire risk in cold weather. Fire Marshal Marvin Uecker says as of this winter 50 fires have occurred from hot stovepipes, including three near Christmas. Inspectors will target dangerous installations, and legal action may be used to remove stoves that violate the city flue ordinance.
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San Antonio
Marvin Ueckers
Uecker
Mexican Toll Use Talk Set
Washington Jan 4 The Labor Department said an industry advisory committee will discuss importation of Mexican nationals for farm work in the United States with representatives of farm labor groups growers and food packers. Texas grower representatives from the Rio Grande valley are expected later this week for a conference with Jim Thursday. Rep Bentsen said he had a call from Austin Anson Harlingen manager of the Texas Fruit and Vegetable Growers and Shippers requesting the meeting but the exact nature of the issues was not known.
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Washington
Labor Department
Rio Grande Valley
Texas
Bentsen
Industrial leaders warn of tougher decades ahead
New York editors of the Iron Age weekly warned that the next decade will present challenges greater than the past ten years. They argued industrialists must communicate with the public and their workers in plain street language and may need to be as vocal as politicians to survive the welfare era.
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New York
Metalwork
Ing Trade
Asi
Contest to name the Jew Jaws Priced car prize drive
Vague OCR text outlines a fundraising contest to name a low priced car with prizes and donations to a memorial cancer fund. The fragment mentions Kaiser-Fried line, first five prizes totaling 910 000, over 1600 prizes, and donations in honor of individuals.
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Dawina
Eingen Memorial Cancer Fund
Unclear Entry Notice Datable for Fundraiser
Fragmentary OCR reads as a solicitation urging participation with phrases about an official entry bank automatic price matching and doubling donations to a Cancer Fund. Names such as Katee Freer Kailen Pearce and Oticial Fotey Wank appear garbled. The text is non coherent and lacks verifiable event details.
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Cancer Fund
Kailen Pearce
Alaska Rail Line Studied for Coastal Route to Alaska
President Truman has directed the defense state and interior secretaries to take preliminary steps toward building a coastal rail line to Alaska. Sen. Magnuson was informed the cabinet members will propose timing and method for talks with Canada to set a location survey. The project envisions a route from British Columbia northward to Fairbanks, Aldshin.
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Stehe
Wastlington
Truman
Defense
Stat
Interior
Alaska
White House
Walter G. Magnuson
British Columbia
Fairbanks
Aldshin
Hunger Strike Hits Prisons Demanding Pay Rise for Jailers
CALQUITA Jan 4 Nearly 500 prisoners are on hunger strike in several prisons here officials said today Their demands include a say in the appointment of jailers and higher pay for staff The action affects multiple facilities as authorities monitor the situation
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Calquita
Bexar School Aids Austin Bound
A delegation from Bexar county school administrators will attend the mid winter administrators conference in Austin on Thursday and Friday. Scheduled to attend are County Superintendent Clyda Ey Smith E G Arnaud Edgewood superintendent G Boynton and W W White school superintendent and W Connell Bot Wells superintendent. Delays Manila January 4 1P1 President Elpidio Quirino postponed his trip to the United States for a kidney stone operation until January 7.
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Bexar County
Austin
Clyda Ey Smith
E.G. Arnaud
Edgewood
G. Boynton
W. W. White
W. ¥. Connell
Bot iWells
Manila
Elpidio Quirino
United States
Fress
Senate eyes reopening S-percenter inquiry over Capitol Bill
Senate investigators speculated that John Maragon’s perjury indictment could restart the S-percenter probe into Capitol Bill. Maragon, once a bootblack with access to the White House, was indicted by a grand jury on four counts of lying to the Senate committee examining his finances and activities last summer.
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Washington
Senate
John Maragon
Capitol
Maragon
Bootblack
White House
Bias Halts Big Bequest At Lafayette College
The Lafayette College board of trustees rejected a $140,000 endowment for a scholarship fund because the bequest carried conditions barring grants to Catholics, Jews, or non native-born Americans. Frederick F. T. Dumont of Lancaster, a former diplomat who died ten years ago, made the gift. The decision came at a New York meeting.
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Susy “York
Jana
INS
Lafayette College
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