New York City Bus Strike Shuts Roads Citywide
On March 10, 1940, 1094 buses were idled as Privers and others walked out for higher pay. Nearly 1,000,000 riders faced detours while 1,000 pickets guarded garages and offices. Talks with Mayor LaGuardia began as drivers and mechanics massed.
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New York City
New York
Privers
John A. Ritchie
Boykin K. Wright
F. H. LaGuardia
City Hall
Fifth Avenue Coach Company
Manhattan
New York City Omnibus Corporation
Transport Workers Union
CIO
John E. McCarthy
Arizona Receives 15 Million From Federal Works Programs
Washington report details 15 640 028 dollars allocated to Arizona from federal and sponsor funds for the fiscal year ending June 30. Breakdown includes Work Projects administration 8 410 042 dollars and Public Roads 4 563 352 dollars with smaller sums from Public Works Housing and Public Building administrations. John M. Carmody notes the program built abbatoirs airports water works and zoos.
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Washington
Federal Works Agency
Arizona
Work Projects Administration
Public Roads Administration
Public Works Administration
United States Housing Authority
Public Building Administration
John M. Carmody
Federal Works Administrator
Congress
U S Writer Sherwood Anderson Dies in Colon Hospital
Cristobal C Z March 10 United Press report says Sherwood Anderson 64 died Saturday night in Colon hospital from abdominal ailment with peritonitis. He collapsed during a South American tour with wife Mrs. Anderson after being taken from Grace liner Santa Lucia. Born Camden Ohio, he gained fame with Winesburg Ohio 1919 and later works Poor White The Triumph of the Eggs Dark Laughter.
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Cristobal
C. Z
U.P
Sherwood Anderson
United States
Anderson
South America
Winesburg
Ohio
Camden, O
Railways of Argentina Carry More Passengers Last Year
Government railways of Argentina carried significantly more passengers in the past year than in 1939, reflecting a broad rise in usage across the system.
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Argentina
Murdered Kansas City woman Leila Welsh identified by bloodstained hammer and knife
Leila Adele Welsh 24 was slain in her bedroom in a well to do Kansas City area home. Police found a stone mason hammer and a seven inch knife at the scene with mud on the sill and bloodstains. Wielded by an intruder who entered through a window, the case is not believed to be robbery or assault by a stranger. Welsh, a former Knoxville teacher and 1937 University of Kansas City beauty contestant, was dating Richard Funk. Her mother found the body.
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Kansas City
Leila Adele Welsh
Marie F. Welsh
Miss Welsh
University of Kansas City
Richard W. Funk
Sweden Exempts Newspapers From New Sales Tax
Sweden announces exemption for newspapers from the new sales tax delaying impact on print media. Government officials say the measure shields publishers while tax policy debate continues.
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Sweden
British Forces Drive Deep Into Ethiopia Capture Gabre Darra
A British force advancing from Italian Somaliland seized Gabre Darra on the Ogaden plateau about 145 miles inside Ethiopia and pressed toward the Addis Ababa railway. British communiques say Italians are fleeing toward the highlands as another front reports British gains in Gojjam and Cheren with thousands of Italian prisoners taken.
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Cairo
Egypt
Jibati
Addis Ababa
Gabre-Darra
Ogaden
Diredawa
Italy
Fer-Fer
Mogadiscio
Harar
Ethiopia
Gojjam
Italian East Africa
Cheren
Eritrea
Asmara
Massawa
North Africa
Tripoli
Libya
Tripolitania
East Africa
Babies Born With Insurance Against Boils Doctor Says
Dr Alfred B Longacre of Tulane University spoke at the Southeastern Surgical Congress in Richmond about infants showing resistance to the staphylococcus germ. Mothers showed little resistance. The effect lasts months to a year before children fall into two groups susceptible or rarely affected. Anti toxin appears the most effective for chronic blood infection from staphylococcus, surpassing sulfa drugs.
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Southeastern Surgical Congress
Alfred B. Longacre
Tulane University School of Medicine
New Orleans
Longacre
Tulane University
Frederick H. Falls
Chicago
Schellbach Promoted Naturalist at Grand Canyon Park
Grand Canyon National Park announces Louis Schellbach has been promoted to the post of naturalist. Superintendent Frank A. Kittredge confirms the appointment in a formal notice.
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Grand Canyon
Louis Schellbach
Grand Canyon National Park
Frank A. Kittredge
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Pilot Club
Tucson Pilot Club
Pioneer Hotel
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Eleanor Babbitt
Betty Bolton
Alice Flaccus
Jean Sharman
Martha Jean Karnopp
Mason
Girl
Funk
George
Miss Wetherill
Western College
Oxford
Leila McKee Welsh
Knoxville
Welsh
Rockhill
George Winston Welsh
Lee’s Summit
Yimal
America
Hudson
Somaliland
Associated Press
F. K. Carson
Spl. Agt
Ord. Dept
Tucson
the Prudential
Insurance Company OF America
Home Office
Newark, New Jersey
State Office
Luhrs Tower
Phoenix, Ariz
Stephen J. McDonough
Richmond, Va
Nancy
Russia
Schellbach
Ioney
Hartmann
Porter
Stone Ave
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Tucson Gas, Electric Light & Power CO
Magic Chef
Norge Gas Ranges
Tidmarsh
North Main
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