Texas Agriculture Commissioner backs domestic cotton plan
Dallas speech by J. F. McDonald urges American market prices to boost farms and allied industries. He criticizes continued emergency cotton curtailment, promotes domestic allotment or McDonald plan with tariff benefits, and argues for extending to wheat and rice.
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Dallas
J. F. McDonald
Texas Commissioner of Agriculture
Dallas Agricultural Club
McDonald
Martin Dies
Commissioner of Agriculture
Congress
Woman lecturer blasts billboard signs in Cambridge
Marjorie Sewell Cautley, landscape designer and sole female lecturer at MIT, calls outdoor billboard advertising perfectly stupid. She notes women shopping rely on newspapers and magazines, not billboards, and after long rides reading ads she would never buy the products advertised.
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Cambridge
Mass
Marjorie Sewell Cautley
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Miss Cautley
Texas matters loom in Congress as river plans rise
congressional debate centers on Texas oil and cotton with Patman and Rayburn influential in bills on oil, utilities, and river development. Senate hearings set for April 16. Texans push flood control for Brazos and Rio Grande areas and river projects including a 36 million Red River reservoir at Denison.
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Washington
Texas
House
Congress
Lone Star
Senate
Patman
Rayburn
House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee
Connally
Utility Holding Company
Mansfield
Sheppard
Cross and
Johnson
Brazos River
Representative West
Rio Grande
Red River
Denison
King Ranch Partition Planned in South Texas
Rio Grande City reports plan to partition the King Ranch the world famous 1 250 000 acre cattle empire spanning Starr and seven other counties. The move follows incorporation steps and Kleberg family as incorporators with heirs at the Gertrudis ranch house serving as the domain center. Tests by the U S Bureau of Standards noted steel curtains as safest for theatre use for 30 minutes.
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Rio Grande City
King Ranch
South Texas
Starr County
Kleberg
Corporation
King Domain
Kleberg, Kenedy, Willacy
Nueces
Hidalgo
Jim Hogg
Starr
Gertrudis Ranch House
U. S. Bureau of Standards
Pentecostal Revival to Open in Reid Building
Mrs. Verena Hawkins of Trenton will lead a Pentecostal revival starting Saturday night in the Reid building. Services are scheduled for 7:45 p m daily with public invited to attend.
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Verena Hawkins
Trenton
Reid Building
Services at Central Christian Church Sunday Morning
Services will be held at Central Christian Church in the morning hour of worship. The sermon titled The Promised Blessing will be delivered by Rev. G. C. Minor after communion at 10 45. Everyone is invited to join in worship. The evening service is dispensed with and members are urged to attend the meeting at the Methodist Church led by G C Minor.
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Central Christian Church
G. C. Minor
Methodist Church
G, C, Minor
Paris area churches plan joint services and Passion Week
The Paris area churches announce a shared Sunday schedule with a joint service with the Methodist congregation and an April 9-10 Paris Presbytery session at Sherman Central Presbyterian. The Presbyterian will meet then with local church and Missionary Society representatives. Passion Week events are set April 14-21 with services each day.
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B. Wrenn Webb
Methodist
Paris
Farmers Plant Cotton In Mahurin community
The Mahurin news notes several local social visits. Mrs. Perry Hall and Mrs. Jack Withrow visited Greenville on Wednesday. Various residents, including Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Cline and Ed Cline family, hosted relatives from Wolfe City Denison Kentuckytown Whitewright and Canaan communications. A few community members have mumps and Bill Hutchins visits Temple Oklahoma.
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Perry Hall
Jack Withrow
Greenville
Ernest Cline
Ed Cline
Wolfe City
Ethyl Gibson
Enterprise
Oland Bush
Raymond Lorance
Denison
Campbell
Mary Low
Kentuckytown
Orvie Hall
Alfred Rouse
Clifford Jones
Howard Hodge
J. H. Hodge
Canaan
Velma Bush
Whitewright
Ruby Grammer
Clyde Sublet
Bill Hutchins
Temple
Okla
One Legislator Demands Details on UT Research Expenses
Rep. W. E. Pope of Corpus Christi challenges lump sum funding for the University of Texas until per professor expenses are itemized. He cites abroad travel by four professors with annual salaries ranging from 4 000 to 7 000 dollars for quirky research inquiries from King Tut to turtle migration.
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United States
Greenland
Isthmus
Panama
Five Thousand Planes, McSwain Urges Air Defense Build
Washington. Chairman John J. McSwain told the House military affairs committee that a vast air defense program, including 5,000 planes, is essential to keep the United States out of a European war. He warned neutrality hinges on ready defense and an air force able to repulse any invasion. Also noted is Miss Helen Richey of Washington becoming the first woman co pilot for a regular mail and passenger airline with about 1,000 flight hours.
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Washington
John J. McSwain
House Military Affairs Committee
United States
McSwain
Helen Richey
Washington, D C
Richey
Social Security Bill Clears House Committee
The Ways and Means Committee voted to report the administration social security bill to the House with amendments. The measure retains old age pensions and unemployment insurance for workers over 65 and includes payroll tax provisions. A key change moves the new social insurance board from the Labor Department to an independent agency with President Roosevelt backing.
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Washington
Ways and Means
House
Doughton
Dem
North Carolina
Cooper
Tennessee
Gng
Democrats
Lamneck
Ohio
Social Insurance Board
Labor Department
Roosevelt
Perkins
Woman killed by circular saw at farm home
Mrs. Lewis Hunt, 40, was killed instantly at her farm near Stephenville when her clothing caught in a circular saw as she assisted her husband in cutting wood on Monday afternoon.
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Stephenville
Lewis Hunt
Here
For Sale Dairy Cow and Rooms for Rent
For sale E. T. Doss good Jersey milk cow. Housekeeping rooms for rent by Dessye Reynolds contact phone 126.
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E. T. Doss
Good Jersey
Dessye Reynolds
Plans To Power Plane With Automobile Motor
Washington plans for an experimental air plane powered by an automobile motor were announced by the commerce department. Eugene Vidal said Fahlin Manufacturing Co. will build the plane, noting performance should rival aircraft engines with a lighter payload. Automobile engines of 90 horsepower cost less than 150 dollars, far cheaper than aircraft engines, with lower maintenance and easier service.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Eugene Vidal
Air Commerce Bureau
Fahlin Manufacturing Company
St. Joseph
Oldest Known U S Woman Dies at 120 in San Antonio
Mrs. Ruperta Estrada Duranzo, believed oldest person in the United States, died at Santa Rosa Hospital at age 120. A full blooded Indian who learned Spanish at 45, she witnessed Maximilian's invasion of Mexico and later moved to the United States in 1909 with her husband who served as a military attache.
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San Antonio
Ruperta Estrada Duranzo
United States
Santa Rosa Hospital
Cotton and Wheat Loan Is Concluded
Washington reports the five year cotton and wheat loan to China totaled 17,105,385 dollars via the RFC. China was authorized 50 million. only the smaller amount was drawn. Dr. W. P. Wei, Chinese financial agent, has departed.
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Washington
China
RFC
Jesse H. Jones
W. P. Wei
Jones
Japan
India
Growing Tomatoes Pruning For Single Stem Stakes
The best method for growing tomatoes after transplanting is to prune to a single stem or two stems and tie to stakes or trellises. Plants are spaced two feet apart, with stakes four to five feet long. Trellises can be laths or wires between small posts. Prune by pinching side shoots at leaf joints and tie plants loosely with twine or cloth strips beneath a leaf node.
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Gossard
T. W. Ayres & Son
Presbyterian Church
Mahurin News
C. T. Sadler
T. L. Hansard
E. A. Hansard
Eveready
Joe Johnson
Luther Gordon
W. A. Fain
L. LaRoe
E. D. Barlow
Manning, Clark & Meador
G. H. Jackson
Elm
Whitewright Hatchery
R. D. Ford
J. H. Hollingsworth
Auto Finance Company
F. W. Creager
MGR
S. Travis Sr
Sherman
J. N. Carter
U. S
Jas. S. Kone
Kelly
East Side Sq
Nicholson
Nicholson’s
Hope’s Lice
Hope
Bonham
Western Union
Henry R. Scates
Whitewright Mutual
Whitewright Burial Association
Rollie R. Waldo
R. R. Waldo
Whitewright, Texas
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