Huge Slice of Federal Funds for Texas Causes Wonder in Congress
In Washington lawmakers wonder at Texas getting vast federal funds, noting $3,000,000 for a Centennial, about $30,000,000 WPA funds, and effectively $50,000,000 for Lower Colorado and Brazos river projects. Navy transfers and personnel bound for the Texas exposition are announced, with Texas natives prioritized. A hurricane discussion highlights gulf coast damage and coast guard routing debates.
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H. P. Drought
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Swanson
San Diego
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C. L. Keithley
House
Merchant Marine Committee
Gulf
Charley Watson
Freeport
J. J. Mansfield
Columbus
Coast Guard
East Florida
Coast Guard and Weather Bureau
Record Bible Sales Worldwide Rise in 1935
London reports 1935 Bible society sales up across several nations with Germany gaining 20,000 to 153,483 and China leaping 400,000 to 4,296,495 amid unrest and literacy growth. Spain up about 20,000 since the 1934 revolution, Italy down, Ethiopian and Italian soldier distributions noted.
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British and Foreign Bible Society
Germany
Spain
Italy
Ethiopia
Port Said
China
Beaumont Woman Sails To Slam On Spade Heavy Hand
Mrs Will E Dick inson calmly opened with a two demand after spotting 13 spades at a Friday bridge game in Beaumont. Her bold bid lured opponents into a double, redouble and laydown slam, reported in a Sun Want Ad style.
City Traffic Lessons on Margin and Focus
A skyline view explains why traffic flows yet jams occur from sudden driver or pedestrian actions. Experts urge maintaining space and time margins to avoid rear-end and side collisions, plus forethought to anticipate others turning or stopping.
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Bato
Saved labor and the Rust brothers vision
The Rust brothers of Memphis promote a cotton picker and call for market ideas that protect workers. They propose leasing, minimum wage and max hours, abolition of child labor, collective bargaining, and a social insurance plan funded by machine profits, aiming to avert mass unemployment. They acknowledge labor must find new work as machines save it.
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Rust Brothers
Memphis
What Am I I Am Alcohol
A historical quotation personifies alcohol as the greatest criminal in history, claiming it has killed more than wars, turned men into brutes, destroyed families, and ruined millions while enticing and trapping the innocent. It portrays alcohol as a pervasive social menace.
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Tory
Texan banker and editor Garland Adair runs for state treasurer
Garland Adair 47 of Austin, veteran newspaper man and creator of the Texas Centennial Memorial coins, announced his candidacy for Texas treasurer in the Democratic primary. Born 1889 in Cass County, he grew up in North Texas, and is UT-educated, ex-serviceman, with newspaper ties in Marshall Mexia Abilene and other towns. Peanuts are as popular in some parts of China as in the United States.
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Austin
Texas
Texas Memorial Museum
State of Texas
Cass County
North Texas
John B. Adair
University of Texas
Marshall
Mexia
Abilene
China
United States
Bishop Worried About Public Bible Knowledge Shortage
Lynchburg Virginia Bishop Edwin Mouton of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, says he is deeply concerned by a Virginia high school survey. About 18,434 students answered a questionnaire revealing widespread gaps including 16,000 unable to name three Old Testament prophets, 12,000 unable to name the four Gospels, and 10,000 unable to name three of Christ's disciples.
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Lynchburg
Edwin Mouton
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Virginia
Christ
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