Governors See Damaged Future At Governors Conference
In Duluth six governors wrapped a four day meeting warning that the nation must prepare for invasion. Missouri's Lloyd C Stark voiced gloom that France and England may fall, leaving the United States as the only free democracy. Strong calls emerged for immediate and effective defense measures.
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Duluth
Minn
Lloyd C. Stark
Missouri
France
England
United States
Jong
Light Classified Vacancy Ad Request
An old style notice advertising a vacancy in The Light newspaper unit. It mentions inexpensive “Situation Want Ads for quick results” and directs readers to dial for an adwriter, with a street reference to Broadway at Fifth Street and a code F-12931.
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Dial
Broadway
Fifth Street
Adwriter
Mexico Plans Alien Survey
Mexico City reports a government plan for a nationwide survey of all foreigners to verify citizenship status and monitor travel. Officials may require questionnaires and registries to curb alleged fifth column activity amid Nazi Communist rumors. The note references a feature on superstition in the Caribbean.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Department of the Interior
Virgin Islands
Caribbean
Many Left Behind as 35 Go to Camp Laf a Lot
Eight dollars sends a child to Camp Laf a Lot for three weeks of outdoor education and healthful living. Donations from individuals and firms, including $25 gifts from Steves Sash and Door and Mrs. Jack Brosseala, support housing 400 children if enough funds are raised.
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Laf
Laf-a-Lot
Jef
Sam Capers
Steves Sash and Door Company
Jack Brosseala
Marion J. Knight
San Francisco
Conif
Edith Diehl
Jeannette Smith
Beulah Toepperwein
Woman makes death threat in Odessa jail transfer
Isabelle Messmer, a convicted murderess who escaped in April, was back in Ector County jail awaiting transfer to the penitentiary. She warned she would “kill everyone” and “get out somehow” while addressing Sheriff Reed er Webb and County Attorney O E Gerron after being returned by plane from Tipton Indiana where she was captured.
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Odessa
Isabelle Messmer
Ector County
Buford
Tipton
Ind
Reeder Webb
O. E. Gerron
He Does His Bit Trains Mechanics in Martusville
William P. Smith in Martinsville New Jersey starts a defense training school to teach machinists and mechanics. The course runs two nights weekly in his shop for 36 students aged 16 to 35. Entrance requires applicants be patriotic American citizens.
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Martinsville
N. J
William P. Smith
National Defense
Smith
Scripps Ex-Wife Secretly Weds Tenter in Arizona
Arcadia California report reveals Betty McClanahan, ex-wife of Johny P. Scripps, wed Jay E. Tenter, a trainer, last December 28 in Salome Arizona after a June 1935 Yuma ceremony. Bride is daughter of Denver's Mrs. Lowrie McClanahan and was divorced three years later.
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Arcadia
Calif
Salome
Arig
Jay E. ‘Tenter
Betty "McClanahan
Johny P. Scripps
Lowrie McClanahan
Denver
Scripps
Yuma
Ariz
Injury suit over pole injury against Southwestern Bell
O Q Moody sues Southwestern Bell Tele phones for 2990 damages claiming a telephone company worker dropped a two foot metal tube from a pole on May 20 near Vh eimis Boulevard Meerscheldt Street injuring his left arm and shoulder and causing permanent injury and nerve shock. He seeks 29450 damages plus 140 for medical care.
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Éomoploye
O. Q
Moody
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Vheimis Boulevard
Meerscheldt Street
Telephone Company
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