Morning Press News 
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HOUSTON 
25 July 1938 
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MISCELLANEOUS 
■Washington : 
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Public J'orks Administrator Tclces announced tonight that the PWA 
is rapidly approaching the ■1,000,000,000.00 mark in authorized 
construction. Ickes released a summary showing that the P.v.A. 
has allot ed funds for $840,000,000.00 worth of construction in 
the 25 days since President Roosevelt signed the PWA Act. The 
PWA allotments have been made at the rate of more than thirty six 
million dollars a day and more than five million dollars an hour. 
Paris: 
Physicians said tonight that the condition of the former movie 
actress, Pearl White, is critical. The woman, who thrilled 
audiences of the silent movie days, is suffering from an old 
spinal injury. She injured her Spine in a fall during her 
movie days. niss -White refused to have a double perform the 
more perilious acts called for by her script. Miss White is 
now 49 years old, She made her last picture in £ aris in 1925, 
ADDITIONAL BASEBALL SCORES: 
National League: Phila. 
Cinn. 
New York 
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Brooklyn 
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5 7 0 (lo innings). 
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Orance, N.J. 
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The number one heavyweight challenger, Tony Ga lento, wa. s 
reported holding his own tonight in his battle ^ against 
bronchM. pneumonia at the Orange memorial Hospital# Galento 
was given a blood transfusion this afternoon* His condition 
is still regarded as grave* 
Buenos Aires: 
Reports reaching uaenos Aires tonight said that at least 10 
persons were killed when a transport plane crashed somewhere 
'in Columbia* Details of the air disaster were lacking j* It 
was reported however, that the plane was enroute from mogota 
to Santiago when it failed to clear a mountain and smashed up 
on the side of a precipice* 
Chicago : 
Sam Snead of 'White Springs , West Virginia, won the $5,000.00 
Chicago Open Golf Tournament today with a 54 hole card oj. ^07. 
