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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1937
Page
8
Miller releases list of student transfers for the district. Details include receiving and sending schools, with dates and grades affected. Families are advised to consult the district's official notice for exact names and timelines.
In Buhl Idaho a massive rock wall in a farming area’s sinking canyon collapsed slightly with the wall shifting ten feet westward. Farmers fear more canyons may form near the 200-foot low area along Little Salmon River eight miles northwest of town. H A Robertson, a farm tenant, said he has watched the disturbance since it began.
Cotton picking is the order of the day as families visit relatives across the area. The column records numerous visits among Savage, Jones, Bowen, Wilder, Cooper, Mayse, Donihoo, Richie and others, with illness noted for David Ray and Joyce Savage. It also notes Big Bend National Park interest and resettlement aid data from North Dakota farm families in 1936.
Shanghai note tells of George Battery an Atlanta newspaperman living under bombing in Kiangwan. He sleeps nightly in a five foot iron tub after moving bedding to ground floor and endures four days on salmon and bread. He rode four miles behind Japanese lines at Hongkew with typewriter kit and limited garb. Battery has written for Chinese newspapers since 1931 and once authored a book about Wallis.
Miss Annie Harrison Lewis, aged 70, who fed eighteen cats, is evicted from her Raleigh residence after HOLC orders her to leave for failure to pay installments on a 3700 dollar mortgage. Banks Arendell, HOLC attorney, grants tomorrow to move. Possessions sit on the porch as officials relocate them to the sidewalk.
Beverly Hills Calif Pick fair center of film society redecorated today by Mary Pickford for her third and last time She intends to sell the twenty room Norman French house on a twelve acre hilltop estate which she and Douglas Fairbanks shared before their estrangement Hundreds of precious trinkets not for sale will be moved to safety vaults until Miss Pickford and her third husband Charles Buddy Rogers settle permanently Italy's modern Palace of Justice and Castle Sant Angelo was built by Hadrian as a tomb.
A Sunday night burglary at Bailey post office and the M. C. Clayton gin stole cash totaling 165 dollars. A 400 pound safe was drained of 150 dollars after being carried two miles from town. Checks and papers were untouched. The gun safe knob was knocked off and 15 dollars taken. Police are checking fingerprints and tire tracks.
Crete Neb Frank Carter fifty was suspended by an electric drill when a short caused the line to go dead. The 130 foot high steelwork left him hanging as the current was cut and he fell five feet to a platform. He escaped with shock and minor bruises.
Hall County crop reporter makes a 92 mile monthly trip to check one bale of government cotton stored in the Turkey compress 46 miles southwest. The task requires travel to verify the single bale in a government program.
Hollywood reports the secret marriage plan of radio stars Charles Correll and Alyce McLaughlin. Correll confirmed the couple will wed in Hollywood on September 11 with the bride’s mother Mrs John F McLaughlin as maid of honor and the groom’s father J B Correll as best man, traveling from Peoria Illinois for the ceremony.
Broadus Montana William Davis testifies to a lightning strike near town that tore a hole in his hat and then struck again in the chest two minutes later. The bolts left him deaf and his clothing damaged as he herded sheep.
New Orleans reports Gen. Thomas Q. Ashburn, president of the Inland Waterways Corporation, urged a $50,000,000 reservoir near Denison, Texas to flood control and maintain a 9 foot channel on the Red River. The proposed reservoir would cover 250,000 acres and reach 160 feet in depth, with the first 30 feet allocated for flood control.
General Ashburn said diverting 5 000 to 6 000 cubic feet per second into the river could keep a 9 foot channel for navigation while 100 feet would support emergency uses. The project could also develop hydro electric power and benefit the entire Mississippi Valley. His federal barge line is ready to operate on the Red River once a proper channel exists.
Gov James V Allred offered a $500 reward for information leading to arrest and conviction of anyone implicated in the tarring and feathering of Herbert Harris socialist organizer in Dallas last week. The governor acted soon after re-
Lost black shoat weighing about 90 to 100 pounds. Van Claborn, City Meat Market. Classified ad rates: 25 cents for 25 words or less and 10 cents per word for every word over 25.
The Holcomb family expresses sincere thanks to neighbors and friends for kindness and sympathy shown during the illness and passing of their wife and mother, R. L. Holcomb, and their children.
While vacationing in Mexico City, Governor Allred criticized the tar ring and feathering as a shameful act and pledged Texans will not tolerate flogging or violence. Acting Gov. Woodul ordered an investigation by the state department of public safety in the absence of the governor. He warned that if local authorities cannot stop violence, the state will act.
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