Plans To Permit Vets To Get More Surplus Goods
In Dallas a two day War Assets administration conference with regional directors and veterans chiefs from Texas Oklahoma Arkansas Louisiana and Mississippi led to new steps to speed surplus distributions to veterans. Commitments to allocate excesses where urgent veteran needs exist aimed at an equitable quick transfer of available items despite limited inventories. General Donovan urged prioritizing veteran needs and predicted the plan will meet veteran requirements by expanding access to government surplus items on the set aside list.
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Dallas
War Assets Administration
Veterans Division
Southwest
Richard Donovan
Texas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Donovan
Rent Control Expanded to Rio Arriba County
OPA rent executive Flynn OMalley announced tenants in Espanola and parts of Risob e Rd Riverside will have rent controls extended into Rio Arriba county. Controls began Sept 1 and will be registered Sept 16.
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Espanola
N. M
Rio Arriba
OPA
Flynn O’malley
Riverside
Alburtys Called to Lubbock Over Sister Illness
Mr and Mrs W H Alburty of Richey Missouri travel to Lubbock as Mrs J B Pryor sister falls ill with pneumonia after a fall that fractured her hip. Pryor is hospitalized at West Texas hospital. Rex Jackson visits from University of Texas Austin to Tohoka and Lubbock this weekend. A civil jury is to report Monday morning to Judge Pardue for trial of two cases. Mrs Lawrence Alexander named deputy county clerk. J N Davidson pleads guilty to check law violation. fined $10 and costs.
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W. H. Alburty
Richey, Mo
Lubbock
Rex Jackson
University of Texas, Austin
Tohoka
G. V. Pardue
99Th District Court
Lawrence Alexander
Bonham
Alexander
Sears Roebuck & Co
Walter Davies
J. N. Davidson
Mertens man dies of heart attack in Frost visit
Walter E. Mays age 70 of Mertens died of a heart attack yesterday while visiting Frost. The Frost hospital reported the death. His funeral arrangements were not listed.
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Corsicana
Walter E. Mays
Mertens
Another Dust Bowl Is Said Possible
Paul Walser of Temple, head of the state soil conservation service, warned in Santa Anna that another dust bowl is a distinct possibility in the Great Plains portion of the state. He noted rains eased drought briefly, but about 7.25 million acres remained ready to blow.
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Santa Anna
Pi Paul Walser
Temple
State Soil Conservation Service
Great Plains
State
Walser
Election Check Being Promised
Senate campaign investigating committee promised a spot check of the McKellar Bilbo primaries after a two hour closed session. Citizens filed complaints alleging excess spending and Bilbo urged intimidation of black voters. Ed Carmack and Ed Crump supporters cited, with over 100000 spent on newspaper ads.
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Washington
McKellar
D-Tenn
Bilbo
Dmiss
Senate Campaign Investigating Committee
Edwin W. Carmack
John Randolph Neal
Tennessee
Mississippi
Edgar G. Brown
Washington, D. C
National Negro Council
James L. P. Rumble
New York
Citizens’ National League, Inc
Carmack
Ed Crump
Memphis
Adice
Brown
Ellender D-La
One Pawn Broker in Scotland Early 19th Century
A brief note states that there was a single pawn broker operating across Scotland in the early 1800s, indicating a sparse market for collateral lending services during that period.
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Scotland
Orphans Dormitory Approved for Corsicana Site
Austin reports the Texas lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows grants authority to build a $115000 orphans dormitory near Corsicana. Frank R. Rundell, Austin contractor and IOOF grand warden, says the one story brick building will house about 75 children and replace a 60 year old home. Construction will begin after Civilian Production Administration approval.
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Austin
Corsicana
Frank R. Rundell
Texas Lodge of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
IOOF
Rundell
Texas Lodge
Civilian Production Administration
Texas Geologist To Be Buried Monday
Funeral services will be Monday for Lawrence W. Hewitt a 48 year old Texas geologist who worked from the Arctic regions to Latin America. Hewitt died Thursday shortly after returning to New York from a South American trip for the Socony Vacuum Oil company.
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Ainsworth
Neb
U.P
Lawrence W. Hewitt
Texas
Arctic Circle
Latin America
Hewitt
New York
Socony-Vacuum Oil Company
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Texas Safety Association
Ysoe
North American Mutual Life Insurance Company
North America Mutual Life Insurance Company
Commissioner of Insurance
State of
North America Mutual Life Insurance CO
Berkdale, Houston
Are
Pate
Echo Elaine McGuire
O. W. McGuire
Florida
Miami Beach
Fla
Optimist International
McGuire
Earl Scudday
Avalanche-Journal
Central Pipe and Supply Co
Henry J. Taylor
SEARS
Miss Jr
Kerry Brooke
Texee
Sconain -Dickey Motor Co
Lubbock, Texas
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