Texas Senate OKs 83000 Dollar Centennial Plan
The Texas House approved a bill to contribute 83000 to a 1936 centennial celebration with 1825000 planned for Dallas. Dallas has already authorized bonds of 9000000 and private subscriptions near 2 million. State funds would cover publicity 400000, San Antonio celebrations 350000 including Alamo restoration, and 389000 for San Jacinto battlefield plus other sites.
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Charges Prepared in Abduction Case in Gladewater
State prosecutors prepared charges today against a 29-year-old Longview resident arrested by Police Chief T. N. Green in connection with an attempted abduction of a 12-year-old schoolgirl. A man entered the schoolhouse yesterday seeking a room for Mary Magdalene Sturdivant, who was in class, and the child fled when summoned to the hall.
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Texas May Show 1850 Census Rolls Arrive for Centennial
Photostatic copies of the 1850 Texas census records will be sent from Washington to Texas. The material aims to bolster historical background for the Texas Centennial celebration next year.
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Dancers interpret hymns Wilson ando Bryan
University of Chicago students Woodrow Wilson and William Bryan referenced in a fragmentary item. A 1934 California spinach crop estimate valued at $415000 is noted alongside a rental ad for a furnished room at 1811 North Palmetto. A heavyweight named James Ding Brown is mentioned in a Syracuse university context with an odd cautionary line about meat and cooking juice.
Bows Vote Again Delayed In Washington
Leaders banned passage of the 2 billion soldiers bonus bill in the House and the Senate has acted on the 4.88 billion work relief bill. They fear a merger of the bonus with the relief program payable from the relief fund. Action on the bonus in the House is postponed beyond next Monday.
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Insurance Chief Welcomed by Local Staff at Depot
George J. Cochran president of Pacific Mutual Life Insurance and his wife were greeted by local staff at the Southern Pacific depot on Thursday afternoon as they passed through Los Angeles en route to the East.
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Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company
Los Angeles
Southern Pacific
Huey Long Attacks Roosevelt in Philadelphia Speech
In Philadelphia on March 12 1938 Senator Huey Long delivered a fiery address before about 16000 people denouncing President Roosevelt and his advisers as betrayers of the American people He advocated his share the wealth plan and signaled possible third party action In the talk Long did not name former National Administrator Hugh S Johnson who had criticized him and the Detroit radio priest Charles Coughlin.
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Watchman Turns In Fire Alarm and Dies on Duty
New York March 15 Plremett answering an alarm found a dead man at the signal box. Charles Clausen 61 year old watchman, who had discovered a fire in the basement of a five story tenement, turned in the alarm and dropped lifeless. The fire was quickly extinguished.
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