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Fleshy, flashy Ray Dumont, onetime Wichita sporting-goods dealer, is a prolific begetter of brain children. Six years ago, to stimulate his trade, he organized the country's sandlotters into the National Semi-Pro Baseball Congress. To ballyhoo the sand-lot business, he introduced many innovations: automatic home-plate duster (compressed air whooshed through an underground tube), neon-lighted Scoreboard, jack-in-the-box microphone for umpire's announcements, electric eye to detect balls...
First tryout: next summer, when the pick of President Dumont's 70,000 sand-lot teams meet in Wichita for the national semi-pro championship...
...Sand Hogs of Local 147, International Hod Carriers, Building & Common Laborers Union, wrote A.F. of L.'s President William Green, asking him to purge the racketeers from their union. Said the sand hogs: "The 'take' by racketeers in this field goes far beyond anything ever dreamed of by Scalise, Browne and Bioff. . . . The American Federation of Labor is pledged to root out racketeers from its ranks. We ask that you join with us in carrying out that pledge...
...Japanese aliens. Another 120,000 are citizens of Japanese descent. They are woven beyond unraveling into the fabric of Hawaiian life-they serve in the Army, labor in the fields and refineries, work on war projects. Japs known to be unfriendly (consuls, enemy agents, teachers) have been segregated on Sand Island. Some have been shipped back to the U.S. Japs' guns and short-wave radios have been confiscated. But if Lieut. General Delos C. Emmons ordered all Japs interned, Hawaii's economy might fall to pieces...
...Cessna Aircraft in Kansas women saw, sand, nail and glue wood; sew, stretch on and dope the covering fabric; install the instrument board and radio...