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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1932
Page
8
In Washington on October 12 a typhus patient Dr. R E Dyer suffers from the disease after assisting in a lab study. Fleas drawn from his blood will bite guinea pigs to show if rat fleas can transmit American typhus to humans, a step expected to aid future protective vaccines.
The Texas Railroad Commission recessed for 10 days to review an appeal by Texas Border Gas Co. from city established gas rates after testimony by city witness A. J. Neff was challenged. The delay allows further data review by the commission and the city, with a ruling on Neff’s admissibility to come when the hearing resumes.
Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley declared in Lawton Oklahoma that Franklin D Roosevelt has outlined no program and that Hoover non-partisan reconstruction program is just now moving into action in an address here.
Fort Worth Oct 12 Rev C Q Smith longtime preacher and former Methodist Hospital manager resigns as hospital superintendent and commissioner stating I am better qualified as a min-
Delegations from Louisiana Mississippi Virginia and Texas conferred with Reconstruction Finance Corporation officials on loans for construction projects and direct relief. A. F. Robertson represented the group during the Washington meeting on October 12.
Alpine Texas Relief Association entered a plea for funds to aid the city with its destitution and unemployment problems.
Terrell reports Supt. George F. Powell received a telegram from T. C. Tankersley of Memphis stating he would come to take his sister Mrs. Alada Downing back to Memphis. The woman was found in Dallas in July and was committed to the state hospital here.
A fragment recounts that time it was believed Mrs Blythe Long was a society matron but attempts to identify her failed. The text mentions a hospital and September with garbled wording, suggesting an incomplete society notice or obituary snippet.
The 81st grand encampment of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows concluded with a secret session. Officers for the year were installed yesterday morning and those for 1933-34 were named later in the day. A herd of reindeer imported into Alaska 40 years ago has grown to 600,000 head.
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