Pensions Urged for Rangers Who Served on Mexican Border
Rep Thomason urged the House invalid pensions committee to approve HR 7899 granting aid to six surviving Texas Rangers who patrolled the Mexican border during the Garza revolution from 1891 to 1893. Action was postponed indefinitely. Thomason would seek regular war department classifications. The article also notes the first express highway in the U S will open soon from Middlesex to Irwin with seven tunnels.
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Washington
Thomson
Texas
House Invalid Pensions Committee
Texas Rangers
Frontier Battalion
Frank T. Hines
Thomason
War Department
United States
Middlesex
Harrisburg
Irwin
Pittsburgh
Wheat crop forecast by private experts for 1940
Chicago June 4. Private crop experts estimate the 1940 wheat crop will reach 723 million bushels, down from 755 million in 1939. Six estimates average 234 million bushels for spring wheat, with winter wheat prospects improving to 489 million versus the government’s 460 million.
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Chicago
U.P
Anti-Communists Protest Elliott in Mexico City
Workers National Anti-Communist bloc denounces El Roosevelt statements at Athens Texas speech and counters that anti Mexican forces exist in both nations. Yale President Charles Seymour urges American enlistment in French and British forces to defend freedom. Tortoise shell obtained from the hawksbill turtle.
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Mexico City
Workers National Anti-Communist Bloc
el Roosevelt
Rosevelt
Athens
Tex
Mexico
Roosevelt
United States
Kind
Seymour
New Haven
Rotary Club
Kiwanis Club Heads to Vega for Luncheon
Amarillo Kiwanians will travel to Vega for the Oldham County Kiwanis regular luncheon at noon. Dixie Dice dancers will perform and Wes Izzard will discuss the international situation. A 15 member delegation is hoped. departure is 11 15 this morning from the TWA office in the Herring Hotel. Members from all three Amarillo clubs encouraged to attend.
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Amarillo Kiwanians
Vega Kiwanis
Oldham
TWA
Herring Hotel
Mr. Gunn
Religious Activities Probed by Ellis County Grand Jury
Ellis County grand jury opened an inquiry into the actions of ninety members of a religious sect arrested while distributing literature and playing phonograph records Sunday. Jurors questioned townspeople to learn what preceded the arrests and planned to hear from sect members for their side of the story.
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Waxahachie
U.P
Ellis County
Grand Jury
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