Dust storms may hurt plains crops but boost Missouri soil
A news roundup reports dust storms across Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska cause crop losses worth millions. Missouri benefits from windblown topsoil enriched with nitro gen, while Iowa Illinois Minnesota and North Dakota see less damage. Experts warn Nebraska winter wheat faces severe drying and loss.
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Kansas City
Plains States
Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Colorado
Wyoming
Nebraska
A. R. Duncan
Oklahoma Board of Agriculture
Duncan
Missouri
W. A. Albrecht
University of Missouri
Iowa
Charles Reed
Illinois
Minnesota
North Dakota
J. C. Mohler
Kansas State Board of Agriculture
F. C. Reed
A. E. Anderson
Lincoln
Lincoln, Neb
Youthful Treasure Hunters Released from Reform School
Three San Antonio boys Scott Cockrell Tommy Cockrell and Alfred Garza were jailed in Mexico after a treasure hunt ended with charges of slugging a chauffeur stealing a car and damaging lines. They were imprisoned in Mexico and later paroled from Gatesville reformatory after international negotiations led by Mrs Doyle Cockrell. The youths had been sent by Judge Frost Woodhull to serve two to five years.
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San Antonio
Gatesville Reformatory
Scott
Tommy Cockrell
Alfred Garza
San Luis Potosi
Mexico
Doyle Cockrell
Texas
Frost Woodhull
Gatesville
Blackie Jackson to face trial for attempted assault
District Attorney Elmer L. Lincoln announced Blackie Jackson, 21,charged with attempted criminal attack on a Atlanta Texas high school girl, would be tried next week in Cass County. An unrelated line notes an elephant tail hair can reach about one eighth inch in diameter. Finger rings can be made from a single hair.
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Texarkana
Texas
Elmer L. Lincoln
Blackie Jackson
Atlanta
Cass County
Death sentences handed to four in plot trial at Daunas
In Daunas Lithuania on March 26 four of 126 Nazis were sentenced to death for conspiring to seize Memel for Germany. Ten others got prison terms and 30 were acquitted. The condemned men allegedly killed a fellow Nazi they suspected of betraying them.
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Daunas
Lithuania
Memel
Germany
Hitler
Great Britain
Berlin
Texas U Students Nominate Five Sweethearts of Texas
University of Texas students nominate five co-eds for Sweetheart of Texas by popular ballot. The nominees are Miss Margaret Beverly Austin Kappa Alpha Theta Gail McDavitt Brownsville Pi Beta Phi Patricia Parks Corpus Christi Chi Omega Roberta Purvis Dallas Zeta Tau Alpha and Helen Jane Tilley Jacksonville Kappa Kappa Gamma. Votes will be cast today with winner announced April 5 at the Ex-Students Association revue and annual roundup.
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Ex-Students’ Association
Prisoner Eats Way Out of Theft Case
Temple reports a prisoner allegedly stole a chicken then ate the evidence in the city jail. Constable Monroe Fisher arrested the man and placed him and the bird in jail. The next morning only a few feathers remained and the prisoner was released.
Radio Will Guide U S Vessel Model In Channel Cruise
A 10 foot model of the U S battleship California will cross the channel from San Pedro to Catalina Island next June with no crew aboard. Howard E. Bixby of the Los Angeles Society of Model Engineering owns and designed the ship which will be steered by radio from a following boat. The model features self firing turrets a controllable rudder and automatic engine and will cost about $2000 with a cruising speed of 10 knots potentially outracing the Catalina steamer on a calm day.
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Los Angeles
U.P
U. S
California
San Pedro
Catalina Island
United States Battle Fleet
Howard E. Bixby
1935 Rules Explained a four part bridge code overview
This article introduces the new International Contract Bridge code effective March 31. It outlines five time periods of the game and notes changes affecting the auction period including penalties for irregularities, overcalls, and insufficient bids with emphasis on drawing cards, peeking, and the duty to call attention to rights.
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Alfred M. Gruenther
Associated Press
East
South
West
North
Radio Repair Firm Praised in Trade Publication
The March issue of Radio Retailing features a profile of C B Gooch Engineering Company. It notes the shift from home radio servicing to auto radio installation and repair, with 1008 auto sets placed last year and an average of nine repair jobs daily. Nearly all revenue now comes from auto set work. In Texas regional news, familiar faces appear as Joe Hall pleads drunkenness before Judge Goodenough, a suspended fine noted.
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Tokyo
U.P
Japan
Manchukuo
Great Britain
Manchuquo
China
Foreign Office
League of Nations
Koki Hirota
League
Hirota
Radio Retailing
C. 8 S. Gooch
C. 8. Gooch Engineering Company
Texas
Covington
Joe
Joe Hall
Louisville
Joseph P. Goodenough
Millville Draws Water From Rock-Soaring Reservoir
Millville, located in a narrow valley about 20 miles from Rochester in southern Minnesota, sources its water from a rock carved reservoir in bluffs about 150 feet above the town.
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Rochester
Minnesota
Millville
France opens tourist drive for Paris season
Paris launches a revived tourist campaign for the Fetes de Paris season from May 26 to July 4. Discounts of 60 percent on foreign one way tickets in June with a required five day stay, plus 40 percent off return voyages and to resorts until July 31. Two month francs passes planned aiding Americans, and groups admitted without passports with identity cards. Hotels offer five day packages with meals wine theater outings and transport.
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Paris
U.pi
France
Senate
Chamber of Deputies
Office National du Tourisme
Simple Home Remedy to Gray Hair with Bay Rum Barbo
A home recipe suggests mixing one ounce bay rum, Barbo Compound, and glycerine in half a pint of water to tint gray hair. Applied twice daily, the mixture is said to color streaked hair without staining the scalp, leaving hair soft glossy and non greasy.
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Barbo
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