Red Warriors Earn All-District Honors in 5-AA Grid
Sherman’s McCall and Gainesville’s Major headline the all-district selections for District 5-AA in North Texas after the 1939 season. Bonham’s George Tarpley notes the standout performers from the Bonham Purple Warriors as the squad is polled on both defense and offense.
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REDS
Anderson
Sherman Bearcats
Sulphur Springs
North Texas
Bonham Purple Warriors
McCall
Sherman
Major
Gainesville
North
Texas
Culp
D'Arcy
Denison
Baxter
Warriors
McCall Sherman
Sherman D'Arcy Denison
Inter Paris
Bryan Sherman
E. Green
Tarpley Bonham
Coker Paris
Crosby Sherman
Hall Bonham
Smith Bonham
Abbot Paris
Last Educational Meeting Tonight In Bonham
Cotton farmers in Fannin county, part of a South wide referendum on 1940 marketing quotas, will vote Saturday December 9 1939 at 32 polling places. County agents and local officials will lead the evening briefing at 7 pm in the district courtroom.
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Bonham
Fannin County
W. J Young
S F. Leslie
County Agricultural Conservation Committee
Britain urged not to interfere with American rights in wartime shipment
Secretary Cordell Hull notified Britain that interference with US shipments during the blockade would violate international law. The note urged the British government to refrain from disrupting the legitimate trade of American nationals and to respect all rights in America. In Texas, Fannin county reported $48 023 18 in state and county tax collections for November, down from October but up on year, aided by discounts and late payments. Tax collector W H Harper noted November benefited from three percent state tax discounts and a two percent state tax discount with net payments.
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Cordell Hull
Great Britain
United States
Britain
Hull
Foreign Office
London
Fannin County
W. H. Harper
Harner
Harper
Spiritual Grace Emphasized by Rev Harmon for PTA
Rev W O Harmon urged spiritual and religious education at the Duncan PTA meeting. He warned against educating the head without the heart and noted the church as higher education while praising social grace. Mrs Albert Williamson led the session and Mrs L C Coffman and Mrs George German aided with reports and programs.
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W. O. Harmon
Duncan Parent-Teacher Association
Albert Williamson
Uruguay Withdraws From League of Nations Senate Approval
The Senate in Montevideo approved a bill for Uruguay to withdraw immediately from the League of Nations except for Geneva based technical bodies like the International Labour Office. The session was attended by Foreign Minister Alberta Guan.
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Montevideo
Uruguay
Senate
League of Nations
Geneva Organization
International Labor Office
Two Charged In Death Of Aged Blue Ridge Woman
McKinney Texas December 8 A Sprouse 52 a farmer and Mrs Alpha Tingle 32 a widow and mother of six were charged with the murder of Sprouse s aged wife Mrs Sprouse died November 26 at her home in the Blue Ridge community An autopsy was performed on the exhumed body from Stony Point cemetery viscera sent to the state safety laboratory for examination They were held in the Collin county jail without bond Neighbors said the pair had been friendly for months.
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Blue Ridge
Mckinney
Tex
P. D. Robason
Collin County
Syrouse
Stony Point
Austin
Sprouse
Tingle
San Antonio
Mowry Maverick
John Shook
New Deal
Maverick
Pal
38 AAA Checks Bring Total To 120 069 For 1939 AAA
Thirty eight benefit payment checks totaling 3269.70 were received by the Fannin county AAA office Friday raising the yearly total to 1417 checks and 120060.11 dollars. Checks continue to arrive daily as farmers receive payments for soil conservation and compliance with the 1939 AAA program.
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Fannin County
AAA
Dan Barnard
ACA
Tt Ia
Pannin County
Minute Details OF Cotton Carnival Parade Plans
Minute details for the Cotton Carnival parade and coronation are being finalized. The parade marshal is Tuomlay Keetyar Womack, with over 20 floats secured by business and civic groups and a decorating committee led by Mrs Knight Hackley. The first station is slated at the Church of Christ, with formation announced Saturday morning.
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Fina
Ming Oleto Yarbrough
Rites
Church of Christ
Oy Pirnel Streets
Ork Tuomlay
Bonham Helvets and
Professional Women's Teneheon Club
Knight Hackley
1939 Texas Cotton Crop Estimate Set at 2.84 Million Bales
Washington reports the Agriculture Department's preliminary forecast places Texas cotton production at 2.84 million bales for 1939. The estimate assumes a prospective yield of 157 pounds per acre across the state.
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Texas
Washington
Dec
Department of Agriculture
Germans Bombing Squadrons Raid Paris Deep Into France
German bombing planes penetrated deep into France during the night in an apparent attempt to attack Paris. Flying at 23,000 feet, the squadrons crossed the frontier as anti aircraft batteries opened fire in successive waves.
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Paris
France
Landon Declares Third Term Talk Nonsense
Former Kansas Governor Alfred M. Landon, 1936 Republican candidate, called third term agitation stuff and nonsense. He said the Roosevelt uncertainty affects Democrats and citizens as the party meets in Washington to map 1940 strategy at the Gridiron Club dinner.
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Washington
Dec
Alfred M. Landon
Kansas
Roosevelt
Landon
Repblican Executive Committee
White House
Gridiron Club
Wallace Lowers Cotton Export Subsidy Rate Again
Secretary Henry A Wallace announced that the export subsidy on cotton would drop from 75 to 40 cents per hundred pounds effective tomorrow marking the second reduction in two days.
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Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace
Tarver of Bonham Named Deputy Grand Master in Texas Masonry
Lloyd Tarver of Bonham was named Deputy Grand Master of District Three in the Masonic Grand Lodge of Texas at the statewide lodge convention in Waco. Leo Hart of Gilmer was elected Grand Master. other officers were installed as sessions proceeded at Baylor University.
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Lloyd Tarver
Bonham
Mason Grand Lodge of
Texas
Wenham
Waco
Grand Lodge
Waco Hall
Baylor University
Leo Hart
Gilmer
Masonic Grand Lodge of
Depu
Tarver
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By Emerson Anderson
Purple Warrior
Green
Inter
Minersville
Frederick Trafford
England
W. C. Harmon
Pat. A
Univreo
Berta Guan
Univren Pores
Toledo
University of Toledo
Finland
Ann Lehtinen
Bruce Barton
New York
Barton
U. S
Copenhagen
Sec
Ruussia
Finkand
Boviet
Goremerce
Moscow
Heliik
Pinnina Coveta
Gulf of Pinta
Helsinki
9 Lath
Oliver
Pinnish Harbor
Lerge
Nurmes
Karelia
Petsamo
Wallace
Univer Pease
Italy
Unireo Paras
Rome
Enmels
Venice
Berlin
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