Petersen Lays Out Arizona Focus for Congress Bid
Bill Petersen pledges to push veteran housing and jobs, preserve state rights, and promote private industry. He cites past IRS utility rate wins and calls for Army units to remain in Arizona, veterans open lands and water from the Colorado River, and federal aid for small mines. He seeks July 18 primary support as U S representative.
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William
Bill) Petersen
Congress
Arizona
Daily Citizen
Arizona Corporation Commission
Petersen
Amos Betts
Disabled American Veterans
Army
Veterans Administration
Colorado River
United States
National Congress
United States of America
Daily Citizen Today
Neofascist Movement in North Italy Reportedly Dismissed
Swiss reports say Germany dissolved the Neofascist movement in northern Italy and assumed full public authority. Rumors circulate that Benito Mussolini has gone to Germany.
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Bern
Switzerland
Swiss Telegraphic Agency Today
Italy
Benito Mussolini
Germany
Five Year Old Seals Envelopes at Red Cross
Kansas City youngster Judy Jones age five assists at Red Cross headquarters with her mother. The child helps seal envelopes and group lapel tabs, becoming the city’s youngest war volunteer.
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Kansas City, Kan
Kansas City
Red Cross
Judy Jones
Harold Jones
UMW Backs Labor Plank Amid GOP Labor Rift
Chicago June 29 The United Mine Workers praise the GOP labor plank a sharp attack on the New Deal while AFL and CIO factions express dissatisfaction. K C Adams calls the plank eminently satisfactory. AFL President Green says the GOP misses a chance. The subcommittee chair Hutcheson dominates AFL council while allied to Lewis.
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Chicago
United Mine Workers
AFL
CIO
K. C. Adams
United Mine Workers’ Journal
John L. Lewis
William Green
GOP
Green
AFL Executive Council
William L. Hutcheson
AFL Council
Hutcheson
UMW
Lewis
Labor plank praises workers while pledging fair administration
The plank condemns efforts to destroy collective bargaining and a totalitarian labor front. It criticizes political trickery and notes the labor department has disintegrated. It praises workers for a magnificent productive effort and calls for a secretary of labor representative of labor, without using the term organized labor.
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Labor Department
Seismograph Reports Destructive Earthquake Near Canada
Rev. Joseph S. Joliat of John Carroll University reports a destructive earthquake about 2,200 miles away, likely centered in British Columbia. The temblor began around 4 am and lasted about half an hour.
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Cleveland
UPR
Joseph S. Joliat
Seismograph Bureau
John Carroll University
British Columbia
Valiant Rescue Earns Soldiers Medal for Perez
A valiant but unsuccessful effort to aid a Navy pilot who parachuted into the Pacific near Fort Stevens Oregon earned the Soldiers Medal for Pfc Genaro V Perez of Tempe Arizona. Perez and five other enlisted men and two officers crawled onto a jetty amid violent wind and heavy seas to reach the flier but reached only 2 700 yards from shore as buffeting resisted progress.
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Washington
Pacific Ocean
Fort Stevens
Ore
Pfc
Genaro V. Perez
Tempe
Ariz
Afghanistan Lacks Railroads Despite Population Size
A country with about 10 million people has no railroad network. The absence of rail infrastructure persists amid calls for modernization and regional development.
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Afghanistan
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Tucson
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