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...illegitimate and has the highest percentage of illiteracy and tuberculosis in Argentina. But it was not these evils which last week led President Ramón S. Castillo to use the handy Latin American device of a government interventor to replace popularly elected Governor Pedro Numa Soto. President Castillo said administrative scandals forced him to interfere. Actually he usurped control of the political stronghold of pro-Ally General Augustin Justo, who may be his opponent in 1943's Presidential elections...
Beth Gill, 17, of Nesbitt, De Soto County, Miss., who raised 2,077 fowl; sold 6,254 dozen eggs; canned 1,799 quarts; refinished 45 pieces of furniture; earned $3,839. She is a freshman at Mississippi State College for Women...
...Soto has disappearing headlights (an old Cord idea), a large new potbellied grille, deep-cut rear fenders, better streamlining. Horsepower has been increased from 105 to 115. Improved "Fluid Drive" and "Simplimatic Transmission" are extra...
Died. James F. Waters, 46, supersalesman, who sold $10,000,000 worth of streamlined cabs in New York City, $70,000,000 worth of automobiles from coast to coast; of drowning; in his swimming pool in Woodside, Calif. Onetime Air Corps instructor, he became Plymouth-De Soto's greatest distributor, air-commuted between his East and West Coast businesses...
...Louis Post-Dispatch charged that the strategy by which Missouri's Democrats tried to prevent Governor Donnell from taking office had been worked out at the secret meeting in the De Soto Hotel. At any rate, the legislature refused to seat Donnell. The State's political life was thrown into unholy tumult for six weeks as Governor Stark's term expired and Democratic politicos refused to let Donnell's begin. Democratic Governor Stark demanded that Donnell be seated, the election contested afterwards. What part did Mayor Dickmann play? He stoutly denied any part in the plot...