Welfare and Sanitation Chief Urges Postwar Projects
San Antonio leaders including Mayor Gus Mautimann and Alex Thomas outlined postwar needs at a San Antonio Social Workers meeting. Key priorities: sewage disposal modernization for a population of about 85,000 to 50,000, hospital facilities, improved streets, more airfields and repair shops for private planes, plus private housing. The city will address a derelict swimming pool and advance welfare programs. Temple Beth Ya presided. B.A. SWA led the business segment.
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Timertarp Plant Workers Strike Over Wage Increase
About 1500 employees at the Timertarp Corp naval ordnance plant in Forest Park struck today. They picketed outside the board fielday as they protest a failed pay raise and demand a higher wage increase.
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Fekes and Moore Clash in Oil Row
NEW YORK March 17 In a heated radio debate Secretary of the Interior Ickes defended a proposed Saudi Arabia oil program as not government controlled while Senator E H Moore condemned it as needless and dangerous. The exchange on America's Town Meeting broadcast over the Blue network featured repeated clashes and sharp exchanges over imperialism and oil strategy.
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Children’s Shoes Off List in OPA Moratorium
Washington report notes an OPA action freeing five million pairs of low priced children’s shoes from rationing from May 12 to May 20. Shoes arrive in sizes 4 to 10 with a ceiling price of 1.60 dollars per pair.
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Drinking Glass Camouflage Hoax Ends With FTC Order
The Federal Trade Commission states a drinking glass marketed as camouflage to improve taste is a hoax. It ordered H. D. Shipp Company of Indianapolis to stop claiming the glass will eliminate objectionable tastes or camouflage flavors in medicines oils liquors or other fluids. A separate note cites a claim that thirteen of every thousand servicemen in the Army have a full set of false teeth.
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Gillette predicts FDR to skip fourth term in 1940 race
Washington dispatch reports Sen. Gillette believes President Roosevelt will refuse to run for a fourth term in the final showdown. He doubts the president will seek nomination again but says if he does, Democrats might back Secretary of State Hull. Gillette also notes Willkie supporters say Wendell Willkie would not run independently without the Republican nomination.
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