Marvin Jones Honored For Lifelong Agriculture Service
President Roosevelt writes high praise for Marvin Jones honoring his work for American agriculture. Jones, as House agriculture committee chairman since 1933, guided key farm legislation and national programs, earning a testimonial dinner from the National Grange.
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Washington, D. C
Marvin Jones
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Mr. Jones
National Grange
Panhandle
The
Grange
America
House Committee On Agriculture
House
Jewish Refugees Thrive in Shanghai Amid Ruins
Clark Lee reports eighteen thousand Jewish exiles from Germany Austria and Czecho Slovakia have found sanctuary in Shanghai. In eighteen months they arrived nearly penniless after perilous journeys and have built a new life amid Shanghai's diverse racial mix, becoming the third largest foreign group in the city.
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Shanghai
Germany
Austria
Czecho-Slovakia
Europe
Siberia
Rehearing Asked In Tax Dispute In Texas Supreme Court
Atty. Gen. Gerald C. Mann seeks a rehearing of the Texas Supreme Court ruling upholding a 10 year remission of half of Harris County general revenue ad valorem taxes to fund a flood control project. Mann argues the plan is unconstitutional and warns against future grants that would dissipate state revenues and constrain legislative funding.
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Austin
U.P
Gerald C. Mann
Texas Supreme Court
Harris County
Mann
Supreme Court
Anvil Park Boosters Plan Another Texas Rodeo Trip
Canadian residents and cattlemen prepare for the Anvil Park Rodeo July 3 and 4, an eighteen year longtime event drawing top Southwest hands. The boosters will visit Perryton Spearman Booker Dave Jouzett Follett Shattuck Arnett Cheyenne Elk City Sayre Erick and Texola this week.
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Amarillo
Anvil Park
Southwest
Texas
Cheyenne
Madison Square Garden
Refugees in Hongkew Build New Jewish Community Amid War
The article describes about 70,000 Japanese and 25,000 White Russians aiding local politics and refugees in Hongkew. It details independent funds, camps with communal kitchens feeding over 8,000 daily, and a growing economy of dressmaking, shops, and services across Soochow Creek under Japanese occupation.
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Hongkew
Soochow Creek
Bund
Soochow Bridge
London
Cairo
South Africa
New York
U. S
Hongkow
Germany
Plainview Masons Name Officers
Plainview Masons installed officers Monday night with O B Short as installing officer and Charles F Vincent marshal R E Cross worshipful master E P Stone senior warden Ray F Lowe junior warden D P Everett secretary J C King treasurer J A Fields senior deacon Doug Maddox junior deacon Sam W Waddill chaplain C F Vincent senior steward Glenn H Leatherwood junior steward E Harlan tiler.
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Plainview
Glenn H. Leatherwood
E. Harlan
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By Clark Lee
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Honken
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