Twelve Executed By firing Squads In Past Two Days
Prague dispatch reports 12 Czechs shot by Nazi firing squads in two days for acts of resistance. Nine students were executed yesterday as Prague suppresses freedom demonstrations. Three more were announced today for attacking a German, amid 10,000 German storm troopers occupying the city. In Berlin, Emil Hacha appealed by radio for Czech people to preserve order.
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Prague
Bohemia-Moravia Protectorate
Berlin
Emil Hacha
Czechoslovakia
Bandits Raid Missouri Depot Steals Mail Pouches
Masked bandits with shotguns and pistols robbed the Burlington Railway station at Monroe City Missouri before daybreak taking seven U S mail pouches. Three leather bars chained and locked were also seized authorities said possibly containing cash or negotiable securities. State police suspect three men in the party.
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Monroe City
Burlington
Students Die As Plane Crashes In Illinois Field
In Shabbona Illinois a light plane carrying two Wheaton College divinity students to Duluth Minnesota crashed in a corn field two miles south of town. John Dranz 24 Duluth and Robert McKissick 19 Denver were killed. pilot Russell Wright 30 Wheaton II was injured and taken to a hospital.
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Shabbona
Ill
Wheaton College Divinity School
Duluth
Minn
John Dranz
Robert McKissick
Denver
Russell Wright
Wheaton II
Gainesville Leopards Hold Bonham to 14 7 Score
Gainesville High Leopards edge Bonham Purple Warriors 14 to 7 in a muddy district 5-AA clash. Richardson scored on a two yard plunge, Ed Green added a touchdown and a extra point, while Bonham fought hard but could not overcome the Leopards before about 1500 fans.
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Battling Warriors
Gainesville
Gainesville High Leopards
Bonham Purple Warrior
Warriors
Leopards
Bonham
Poins Richardson
Ed Green
Pleskin
Warrior
Farmers to get aid from Farm Security group
Farm debt adjustment efforts will help Fannin county farmers avoid foreclosure. The Farm Security Administration committee will meet at 9 am Monday November 27 in Bonham to set voluntary repayment plans. Project manager W Kuykendall says adjustments include extensions reamortizations principal and interest reductions and creditor grants to ease farming through 1940.
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Fannin County
Bonham
W. Kuykendall
Parm Security Administration
Nazis Transfer Liner Bremen To Russian Company
BERGEN Norway Nov 18 The German liner Bremen has been transferred to Rusrigg and will soon return to the sea plying between Murmansk and New York It is a twenty million dollar liner that raced from New York just before the outbreak of war and has been at Murmansk The transfer places it with the Russian shipping trust for a new Murmansk to New York service
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Bergen
Norway
Bremen
Rusrigg
Murmansk
New York
Russian Shipping Trust
Businessmen Move Cautiously In War Adjustments
Washington November 18 American businessmen adjust operations to abnormal war needs. The U S Chamber of Commerce says they aim to promote normal internal development to fortify the national economy against wartime disruptions. It notes conferences and meetings to focus on maintaining and strengthening domestic economy.
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Washington
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
Methodist Bishop Brown Dies Suddenly in Portland Hotel
Bishop Wallace B F Brown of the Methodist Church, in charge of Oregon Washington Idaho and Alaska, died suddenly in a Portland hotel. He arrived in Portland on November 7 from Chattanooga Tennessee.
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Portland
Ore
Wallace BF. Brown
The
Methodist Church
Oregon
Washington
Idaho
Alaska
Chattanooga
Bonham Hosts County Federation Of Women’s Clubs Session
Bonham hosted an all day meeting of the Fannin Federation of Women’s Clubs at Bonham High School. Delegates from Trenton Ladonia Leonard Bailey and several Bonham clubs attended. Interim talks covered home and school responsibility with leaders from the federation and local clubs delivering remarks and roll call replies.
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Bonham
Fannin Federation
Bonham High School
Story Tellers League
Tejas Delphians
Federation
Culture Club of
Trenton
Trenton Ladonia
Leonard and Bailey
Thursday Study Club
Current Literature Club
Irby B. Carruth
Pry
Cadonia
America the Beautiful
RT Lipscomb
Henry Grady May
First Methodist Church
Doe Leatherwood
Eunice Felty
Bailey
Fry
Dunice Pelty
Pioneer Study Club
Jack Saunders
Burwell McClure
Dec Leatherwood
Clarence Woosley
CLUB
Cotton Christmas Campaign Gains Local Merchant Backing
Bonham civic leaders and merchants approve a Cotton Christmas campaign to promote surplus cotton. The plan, part of a statewide effort, will feature Give Cotton Too in store ads and decorations. A committee including Miss Oleta Yarbrough and A Ene lander will organize further details next week with city and Chamber backing.
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Prowran
Oleta
Bonham
Chamber of Commerce
Newton
Rayburn Invited To Speak At Meeting Of Postal Workers
PRESNO Cal Nov 18 A 53 year old ranch worker tired of dodging police told officers he had shot and killed his wife and a man in a 1920 double murder near Fresno The man identified as J W Murk worked on a ranch seven miles west of Fresno The killings occurred May 11 1920 when Higgs a railroad engineer and an 82 year old woman were shot Murk said he had not faced charges and cited two daughters and two sons aged 6 4 26 and 24 as his family members The man claimed he last saw his son about 10 or 12 years ago in Shreveport La
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Cal
Nieut
Bowen
J W Murk
Fresno
Murk
Deve Hie
Frisca
Mura
Mamie Murk
Higgs
Thleeo Halbiand
Mark
Lowen
Howen
Shreveport
Earthquake Reported on Seismographs at Institute
PHILADELPHIA November 4 The Franklin Institute reported a slight earthquake recorded on seismographs at 914% ppm. Director Warner Schlesinger says the tremor was distinctly minor and officials could not locate its direction. BALTIMORE November 18 An earthquake was reported at 9% pm Friday but caused little damage.
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Philadelphia
Franklin Inestitute
Ite
Firiny PF Warner Schlesinger
Institute
Baltimore
Rayburn to Speak at Fourth District Postal Workers Meet
Representative Sam Rayburn is invited to appear at the Fourth District Postal Workers meeting in McKinney on Saturday, November 25, with plans for him to speak if feasible. Gilmer congressman Findley Beckworth from the Third District also received an invitation. The event starts at 7:30 p.m. at the Fleet Christian Church, with Wilbon McKinney postmaster Don O. Davis coordinating the program.
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Sam Rayburn
Fourth District Postal Workers
McKinney
Otte
Rayburn
Findley Beckworth
Eof Gilmer
Third Distret
Teouppe O
Fieet Christian Church
Brest Wilbon
McKinhey Postesies
Thairman
Khig
Don O. Davis
Cipro
Ccommit‘et
Texas House backs 21 million tax bid for social security
Sixty six Texas House members signed pledges to support a 21 million dollar tax bill to fund social security payments and urged Gov. W Lee O Daniel to convene a special session. The House numbers 147 active members with 45 attending an unofficial session to present the measure and letter. The sponsors seek a compromise amount and await the governor's Sunday radio decision on calling lawmakers back.
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Austin
Texas House of Representatives
W. Lee O'Daniel
House of Representatives
O'Daniel
House
Senate
Ten Die As Tug Rams Fishing Boat Collision Near Southport
Ten men died when the Southland fishing boat collided with the tug Escape near Southport North Carolina. Two victims were white brothers F. J. Paulcher and Charles F. Paulcher of Stacy. Eight victims were Black sailors. three identified as Robert Lee Joseph Eagles Isaac Claridge. The Southland sank in 12 feet of water after the ram in a 400 foot channel. the tug and oil barge suffered little damage.
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Heaufport
N. C
Southland
Escape
F. J. Paulcher
Charles F Paulcher
Stacy
N.C
Robert Lee
Joseph Eagles
Southport
Isaac Claridge
Bolivia
Coast
Official to discuss cotton separation and arm program for 1940
Clift Day of College Station will address Pannin county farmers in the district courtroom at 7 o clock Tuesday November 21. He will review the cotton situation and the benefits Texas farmers have gained from the AAA program, and present the proposed 1940 AAA plan. Attendees include landowners tenants and businessmen across the county.
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Clift Day
Official Agricultural Adjustment Administration
College Station
Pannin County
Turdey
Dan F. Barnard
Pannin County Agricultural Conservation Administration
Day
Texas
AAA
Barnard
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