Oklahoma budget panel targets $12 million cut for two years
Oklahoma City December 24 budget committee members plan to reconvene after holidays to finalize a report reducing state appropriations for the next biennium by about 12 million dollars. They seek drastic cuts including elimination of several agencies and the Confederate pensions.
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Oklahoma City
Murray
Capitol
Tay
Gentral
Non Mirtican Taxpayers Association
Theta Economy Leave
Stat Chamber of Commert
Union Soldiers Home
Highway
Oklahoma
Health Department
Corporation Commission
Wweax
State
Excene Kerr
Muskoree
Parant
Clint Strone
Clinton
W. C. Cromwell
Enid
Otter
Rain boosts soil moisture and 4-H program updates
Heavy rains across the county restore moisture for winter and spring crops after a dry spell. County agent J B Hill reports on the Oklahoma A and M extension meeting with Dr O E Baxter Dr C B Smith and Dr C C Tazior as noted changes in the 4-H program for 1939. Canning and cooking remain, sewing exhibits updated, and a countywide 4-H drive will intensify after Christmas to finish projects before early school closures due to reduced funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jessie Morgan
Stonewall Boys Rout Las Vegas In Basketball Clash
Stonewall high school boys defeated Las Vegas high school 54 to 24 as coach W C Elliott leads a westward trip. The team faced the Strans forcer Texas squad on Wednesday and plans to meet Raton High School, last year’s New Mexico champions, tonight with hopes of a strong finish.
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Priday
Datte
Stonewall High School
Las Vegas
Stonewall
W. C. “Pooch” Elliott
Stransforcer
Texas
Raton Hich
New Mexico
Pontotec County
Raton
Senate debate on tax exempt securities haunted by ghosts
In Washington on December 25, Senator Ashurst argued for a constitutional amendment to bar tax exempt securities, likening it to banishing fear of ghosts from boyhood. Senator Gore challenged the proposal asking if hosts would be taxed, Ashurst admitted uncertainty but said it could raise revenue despite past phantom taxes.
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Washington
Senate
Ashurst
Artz
Gore
Okla
Myon Explains Vote On Beer Bill In Congress
Tom McKeown, veteran prohibitionist and Okinboeme delegate, was the sole supporter of the Collier bill among his group yesterday. He pressed that the measure would ease the 21st amendment repeal pressure, while opposing repeal and predicting opposition would shift to repeal backers.
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Washington
Tom McKeown
McKeown
Congress
Disney
Hastings
Collier
Cartwrigt
Last Surviving Civil War Captain Dies at 92
August H. Beecher, captain of the 137th New York Infantry, the regiment famed in action in the Civil War, died in Roland Oklahoma at age 92 from injuries after a fall. He was the last survivor of the unit and a personal friend of Vice President Charles Curtis, whom he met in Kansas.
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Roland
Okla
New York State Infantry
August H. Beeche
Beecher
Charles Curtis
Kansas
Farmers save homes in widespread anti eviction actions
The Farm Holiday movement led by c hris Christensen and fellow organizers prevented foreclosures across Nebraska Minnesota and surrounding states. Volunteers pressured banks and lenders keeping farm families on their land by negotiating settlements arranging delays and even halting sheriff sales. The effort drew hundreds of supporters to sales and blocked dozens of forced evictions with calm organized resistance.
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Farmers’ National Relief Conference
C. J
Chris” Christensen
Newman’s Grove
Neb
Chris
Neily
Ned
Elzin
John Raglan
Henry Freces
Humphrey Head
Williamson
International Harvester Co
Omaha
Wei
Christensen
Johnson
Holliday Group
Newman's Grove
Alfred Tiala
Mesaba
Minnesota
Tiala
United Farmers League
Tiara
James Flower
Modena County
Alfred Wiliamsen
Platte Center
Columbus
Pica
Garner
House
George Casper
Scottville
Mich
Fred Chase
Washington, N. H
Ralph Nelson
Washington State
J. Christensen
Midwest
Alessandri elected president of Chile for second term
Chilean voters chose Arturo Alessandri to a six year term, with an inauguration in Santiago following a tumultuous year of revolts. He vows constitutional governance, social reform, and economic rehabilitation, building on his 1920 return to power and 1925 constitution.
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Santiago
Chile
Arturo Alessandri
Congress
Moneda Palace
Juan E. Montero
Senor Alessandri
Latin America
Senate blocks quick vote on extra Red Cross cotton aid
In Washington on December 23 the Senate postponed immediate action on a bill to authorize another 50 000 dollars of farm board cotton for Red Cross relief. Senators asked for more time to study the measure while the House had approved a similar bill in a previous session. Senator Bingham noted 566 000 bales given last session were already distributed and urged rapid aid.
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Washington
Farm Board
Red Cross
Senate
House
Senate Agriculture
Bingham
Conn
Greece faces 30 percent loan demand from Britain over 1929 aid
Athens reports Britain demands 30 percent of Greece’s earmarked revenues held by the international financial control commission to release surpluses tied to the 1929 American loan of 12 million dollars. The Greek premier awaits Washington’s arbitration response before acting. The 1929 loan total stands at 12,050,000 dollars.
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Athens
Greece
Pwe
America
Britain
International Commission of Financial Control
Alessandri's Chile Presidency Could Shape American Investments
The fate of 714 million dollars in American capital in Chile hinges on presidential policies of Senor Alessandri, a long-time labor leader favoring liberal factions. Foreign business in Chile is at a low, with nitrate and other productions down and unemployment rising. Alessandri is seen as potentially fair but faces a strong anti foreign bloc.
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Chile
Senor Alessandri
Alessandri
Tarapaca
Antofagasta
Senate
United Stats
Wilson
United States
Peru
Jost
Russian Trade Aims Expansion as Soviet Delegates Arrive
New York dispatch reports Ivan Boreff vice commissar of foreign trade arriving in New York. Wall Street anticipates renewed efforts to boost U S Soviet commerce. Peter A. Bogdanov of Amtorg Trading Corp collaborates with Boreff to expand trade relations between nations.
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Boyeff
Bogdanov
Amtorg
New York
Russia
Department of Commerce
Germany
England
United States
Italy
Sweden
Norway
China
Mongolia
Czechoslovakia
Ivan Boreff
Wall Street
Rogeff
Peter A. Bogdanov
Amtorg Trading Corp
Fanatical healers held on murder charge in Texas death
Sherman Clayton, a 35 year old backwoodsman, faces a murder charge after his daughter dies during divine healing rites conducted by Paul Oakley 20 and his brother 25. The Oakleys claimed the child was in a heavenly coma and later admitted the death occurred with their hands on her throat. Local sheriff reports the parents and preachers believed they were acting under God to heal the child.
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Linden
Texas
Sherman Clayton
Clayton
Paul Oakley
God
Devil
George Wilson
Claytons
Frank Mitchell
Cass County
Cartright
Mitchell
Oakley Brothers
Sulphur Springs
Calyton
Race riots in Alabama leave 13 held in connection
Eleven negroes were arrested after Monday's disturbances in Tallapoosa and surrounding counties. One white deputy was killed and several others wounded. Authorities describe the Share Croppers Union as communistic and blame the group for the outbreaks.
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Tuskegee
Ala
Smncliff Jeans
Tallapoosa
Macon County
Jeans
T. A. Riley
Clifford Elder
Elder
Ned Cobb
Riley
Jim McMullen
Nion
Dadeville
Charity Board Sues Tulsa Co. Commissioners
The Tulsa community fund organization filed suit seeking a mandamus to force the county commissioners to add 1,892 indigent wards to the poor book and administer care. Hearings set for next Tuesday in district court as fund president Johnson Hill accuses the county of failing to discharge its local obligations to indigents.
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Tulsa
CP —the
Tulsa Community Fund Organization
Johnson PD. Hill
Two youths drown ford near Fayetteville in flood
In Winn creek near Westfork two Lawson brothers Elza 19 and Owen 20 drowned while attempting to ford a flood swollen stream after heavy rains. Andrew Lawson and Otto and Austin Winn survived by clinging to the car and rescuing him, leaving the others submerged.
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Fayetteville
Ark
Winn Creek
Westfork
Elza
Owen Lawson
J. F. Lawson
Westford
Andrew
Otto
Austin Winn
Lawson
Winn Brothers
Andrew Lawson
Denison Grocer Leader Andrew Fox Platter Dies at 82
Andrew Fox Platter 82 a founder of Waples Platter Grocer Co and longtime State National Bank director in Denison Texas died after brief illness. Immigrating from Ohio in 1872 he built a wholesale grocery network with branch houses in Texas Oklahoma and New Mexico. Survived by widow Fannie a son Paul and a daughter Mrs Berenice Andrews and a brother Frank Platter. Funeral plans not set.
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Denison
Texas
Andrew Fox Platter
The
Waples Platter Grocer Company
State National Bank
Ohio
Platter
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Vicw
Fannie Platter
Paul Platter
Dallas
Berenice Andrews
Capt
Adolphus Andrews
Newport
R. I
Frank Platter
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Eeddiers’ Relief Commission
Hh. A. Robertson
Confederate Pension Department
Soldiers’ Relief Commission
Ctonenatl Boys
OCAT
Myon
Pamots
Rodney Dutcher
NEA
Village Opera House
Avery Brothers
Avery
Avery House
Lotton Monet
Alabama
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