ODaniel silent as Texas Highway Board picks collide
Gov W Lee O Daniel kept quiet about his fourth choice for the Texas Highway Commission after James M West Sr of Houston was rejected by the Senate. Speculation grew on possible female appointees and other names including Mrs Oveta Culp Hobby and Mrs Jud Collier.
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Austin
W. Lee O’daniel
Texas Highway Commission
James M. West, Sr
Houston
Texas Senate
Oveta Culp Hobby
Will P. Hobby
Jud Collier
Mumford
Senate
Carr P. Collins
Dallas
Collins
East Texas
J. C. Hunter
Abilene
West Texas
West
Alf M. Landon
O’daniel
Seeks Cotton Road In Tarrant County
County Commissioner Joe Thannischh announced talks with federal officials on a mile long experimental cotton based road in Tarrant County. The project would run south of Arlington on Pantego School road using cotton treated road with a fabric cushion beneath asphalt. China to raise postal rates to fund relief work.
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Fort Worth
U.P
Joe Thannischh
Tarrant County
Thannisch
Arlington
Pantego School Road
Federal Cotton Laboratories
Beloved May Robson looks toward 100 in bright health
Hollywood April 19 May Robson 75 year old veteran of stage and screen reflects on 56 years as a leading theater figure and her busy recent year. She hopes to act until age 100 and to die in harness. Boss Jack L Warner arranged a birthday party with industry friends at her Beverly Hills home.
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Hollywood
May Robson
Melbourne
Australia
France
Belgium
England
Jack L. Warner
Beverly Hills
Aunt Mary
Bridgeport
Man wires tomato vines to aerials in California garden
Archibald Dickson of Sacramento reports tall 11 foot tomato vines with 60 tomatoes per vine after wiring plants to simple radio aerials and mysterious accumulators. He notes no fertilizer or current, and experts offer no firm verdict on the method's cause or efficacy.
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Sacramento
Calif
Archibald Dickson
Dickson
Business College
Father and Son To Die In Electric Chair
In Ohio's history a father and son, Harry B. Dindledine 56 and Henry Dindledine 29 of Springfield, will be executed by electric chair after dusk. They and Henry Chapman 37 of Chicago were convicted for the murder of Patrolman Martin Randolph during a holdup on Sept 3 1937.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio
Harry B. Dindledine
Henry Dindledine
Springfield
Harry Chapman
Chicago
Martin Randolph
Intruder Firing Shot Found After Break-In in Cleveland
Ernest Tait returns home from a movie to a ransacked room in Cleveland and missing $10. A revolver is fired, the intruder is believed wounded by the shot, and a slug is later found embedded in the mattress after a poor night’s sleep.
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Cleveland, O
U.P
Ernest Tait
Tait
Certificate of Authority Issued to Occidental Insurance Co
Board of Insurance Commissioners of Texas certifies Occidental Insurance Company of San Francisco has sworn to comply with Texas laws and is authorized to do business in Texas for the year ending February 29 1940. Austin Texas March 25 1939.罫
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Board OF Insurance Commissioners
State OF Texas
Austin
Texas
Occidental Insurance Company
San Francisco
California
Water Rushes To Flood Area
Heavy rain and melting snow push the Ohio and Mississippi valleys toward flood stages. Evacuations reach 2,600 families from Point Pleasant to Cairo with 2,000 already moved across several states. St. Louis and others report rising rivers while forecasts expect improving weather tomorrow.
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United Press
Midwest
Ohio
Mississippi
Illinois
Cairo
American Red Cross
Washington
Point Pleasant
W. Va
Huntington
Catlettburg
Newport
Cincinnati
West Virginia
Kentucky
Indiana
Missouri
Chesterfield
St. Charles
St. Louis
Pittsburgh
Golden Triangle
Ohio Valley
Two Governors Consider Plea To End Freight Rates
Texas Governor W Lee O Daniel and Oklahoma Governor Leon Phillips weigh joining a drive to abolish discriminatory Southern freight rates. Southern Governors Conference director Lawrence W Chip Robert Jr says equalizing rates with the Northeast would boost Texas industrialization. O Daniel offered no comment in Austin.
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Dallas
W. Lee O'Daniel
Texas
Leon Phillips
Oklahoma
South
Lawrence W
Chip) Robert, Jr
Southern Governors’ Conference
Alabama
Austin
Robert
Northeast
Gov. O'Daniel
Seven Burned in Trailer House Blast Near Longview
Seven people were burned when an explosion rocked a trailer house off State Highway 15 seven miles west of Longview. Five were critically injured and not expected to survive. The injured were rushed to local hospitals.
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Longview
U.P
Escaped Canary Returns Home Amid Subzero Weather
A trained white canary, missing for three hours after escaping Herbert Geisler’s home, reappeared at a window in subzero conditions. It fluttered and peered until the family let it back inside unharmed. Brazil to launch multiple government projects this year.
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Omaha
Herbert Geisler
FHA Grants 4659 Loans in Northwest Texas District
The federal housing administration issued 4,659 loans totaling 15,050,000 dollars in the Northwest Texas district covering 105 counties. District Manager E. T. Stearns announced the well over half of these loans were for construction of homes.
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Fort Worth
Federal Housing Administration
Northwest Texas
FHA
E. T. Stearns
Stearns
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