Texas Democrats See Quiet Primary Amid Convention Shadows
Austin reports a low key Texas Democratic primary with eight or nine gubernatorial contenders. Key figures include Governor Stevenson and challengers Minnie Cunningham and Gene Stratton Porter, plus other statewide and congressional races. Absentee voting slim. armed services voters around 600,000, but overall turnout muted.
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Waco
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Natogdocher County
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Houston Teal
Willian Z. Grhpes
Houston
Beat the Heat With Mexiana Medicated Powder Ad
A promotional notice touts Mexiana medicated powder to relieve heat rash sunburn and insect bites. It claims a soothing cool touch forms a protective coat and helps diaper rash with over forty years of use for babies and families. Priced at 1 cent and marketed as summer relief.
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Briton Downs 102-Plane Ace Burmheller Killed Over Normandy
Berlin radio reported Major Burmheller, a top German ace with 102 kills and commander of the Richthofen squadron, shot down and killed by a British pilot over Normandy. The broadcast called him a legendary figure, noting he had four prior bailouts and had fought 302 Allied planes.
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O'Daniel Declares Stance On Chicago Convention
Senator W Lee O Danial denounced the Chicago convention as communistic in an interview made during his Texas stay. He arrived in San Antonio Wednesday night and left for Fort Worth Thursday afternoon, planning to return to Washington next Saturday.
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County Dems Face Poll Worker Shortage Before Precinct Voting
Bexar county Democratic chairman J. A. Hob Glore grapples with a shortage of poll workers for Saturday’s primary. He raised pay to 50 cents an hour plus 50 cents lunch, from 90 cents and no lunch, citing inflation and population growth in the county. Many workers who served two years ago refuse again, despite the higher rate.
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Hob" Glore
Bexar County Democratic Executive Committee
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State Democratic Committee
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Stevenson Cites Record In Office In Texas Primary
Governor Stevenson seeks renomination citing a reduced state debt from 39 million to about 2 million and no new taxes, plus larger social security and school funding. He touts soil conservation expansion, postwar planning for returning soldiers, Texas military growth cooperation, and a strong labor record in war production.
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Stevenson
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Planning Commission
Polling Place Opens at State Police HQ for Precinct 176
State police headquarters at 210 North New Braunfels Avenue will serve as a polling place Saturday. No driver's licenses will be issued all day. Fred Hurst, senior examiner, said residents in Precinct No. 176 will vote there.
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Bold City Council Veterans Gua Mauermann Away
City council meets as Mayor Mauermann attends the Democratic convention in Chicago. Vote to revive a 25 year dormant practice of reading minutes. They declare election day a holiday. Notice served on Mrs Willemein over residence on Catalina Avenue. City plans $277,555.61 for notes interest materials and supplies.
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State seeks seventy graduate nurses for health department
The state health department calls for thirty graduate nurses to work in rapid treatment venereal disease centers and forty for assignment to county health units. Applicants should send applications to the Merit System council, State Health department, Avastin, said State Health Officer George W. Gox.
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Mexico Asks Troop Guard for Trains
Mexico requests military protection for freight trains running from Mexico City to Vera Cruz after multiple holdups in mountainous areas, according to the flatroad report.
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Mexico City
Vera Cruz
Mexicano
Negroes Held For Violating Jim Crow Law
Two African American girls aged 18 and 14 were removed from a San Antonio Transit bus after refusing to move to the designated Negro section and were jailed for violating the Jim Crow law. Officer J. L. Kinzel arrested them following the driver’s call at Houston and Flores streets. A St. Louis race relations commission issued a public appeal to report rumors of racial conflicts, prompted by a department store lunch counter incident where Black customers faced segregation.
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J. L. Kinzel
ST. Louis
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Election Liquor Sales Ban Cited in Primary Election Day
Austin liquor officials reminded that sale or delivery of any alcoholic beverage before 8 p m is banned on primary election day. The notice cites a general election day prohibition and references enforcement by the liquor administrator Bert Ward.
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Austin
Bert Ward
Voting machine audit rules spark voter check concerns
Election officials faced questions about tracking individual voters on machines. Clerk Albert G. Trawalter explained there is no paper roll to total separate votes and only write-in ballots have a paper trail. He noted no method to verify ballots against poll tax lists, while a telegram from the Automatic Voting Machine company informed him of related updates. Actress Gladys George wins divorce from Leonard Perm after alleging repeated abuse.
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Albert G. Trawalter
Election Committee
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Automatic Voting Machine Company
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