Army Moves to Save Flood Refugees Across Lower Mississippi
Nation mobilizes to evacuate up to 500000 in the Lower Mississippi Valley as floodwater threatens levees and lowlands. Red Cross reports over 1 million displaced, with 223 deaths. War Department coordinates mass transport and precautionary evacuations ahead of rising Ohio and Mississippi waters.
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Mississippi River
Ohio
Mississippi
Red Cross
Washington
War Department
Cairo
Mississippi Valley
Gulf
Roosevelt
Ohio River
Evansville
Ind
Paducah
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Kentucky
Louisville
Hugh L. Rodman Leavell
Illinois
Arkansas
Missouri
West Virginia
Tennessee
Arknsas
Louisiana
Cincinnati
Aducah
Wheeling
W. Va
Lawrenceburg
Aurora
Portsmouth
Jeffersonville
Shawneetown
Ill
Carruthersville
Jackson
Miss
Natchez
Concordia and Catawoula Parishes
Truman
Ark
Lake City
Clarksville
New State Salary System Is Costly in Texas
A Texas State Comptroller compilation shows the new salary system for officers, replacing fee pay, costing $335,165 in the first year. The total paid salaries reached $812,460, well above the four-year prechange average of $477,294, with most amounts still unpaid.
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Austin
State of Texas
Fannin Divorces Jump Fifty Five Percent in 1936
Bonham reports divorces in Fannin County rose 55.9 percent from 1935 to 1936 while marriages increased 9.3 percent. Records show 342 marriages and 93 divorces in 1936, versus 319 marriages and 52 divorces in 1935.
Women Urged to Pay Poll Tax in Grayson County
Miss Genevieve Sweeney, publicity chair of the Democratic Women’s Club of Grayson County, urges all eligible persons to qualify to vote by paying the poll tax before the deadline Saturday night. She notes that the January effort promotes tax payment for participation in 1937 events and that a dollar from each poll tax supports public schools. In Texas voting requires a poll tax of 1.75 dollars.
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Genevieve Sweeney
Denison
Democratic Women's Club
Grayson County
Texas
Pension Office Hours Revealed
Sherman Texas investigator F G Caskey of the Texas Old Age Assistance Commission urges applicants to visit the Sherman and Denison offices only on open days. The offices are open in Sherman Thursday and Saturday mornings, Denison Thursday all day. After filing, investigators will conduct home visits for further aid. Off ery delays and payment stoppages are not explained by the local office.
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Caskey
Palace Theatre Week Program Highlights
The Palace theatre presents a varied feature lineup for the coming week. Eleanor Powell stars in Born to Dance tonight and Friday, Gene Autrey appears in Comin Round the Mountain on Saturday, Jane Withers joins Slim Summerville in Can This Be Dixie on Saturday night and Monday. All American Champ features Stuart Erwin Betty Furness and Robert Armstrong. Shirley Temple in Stowaway plays Thursday and Friday February 4 and 5 with a 2:30 matinee. it is her latest release.
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Palace Theatre
Eleanor Powell
Gene Autrey
Jane Withers
Slim Summerville
Stuart Erwin
Betty Furness
Robert Armstrong
Shirley Temple
Farmers Urged to Attend Rural Electrification Meeting
All Grayson County farmers are invited to a Canaan schoolhouse gathering Friday night where A B Blount and George Smith of Fort Worth will explain the Rural Electrification Act and how to obtain home electricity. A survey plans about 300 miles of lines serving 2000 farms with a government loan to a farmer owned cooperative.
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Grayson County
Canaan
Whitewright
Homer Sears
Charley Howard
A. B. Blount
George Smith
Fort Worth
Mr. Smith
Mr. Blount
Quick Sermon Impresses Bishop in Half Hour
A young clergyman recalls rushing a sermon in thirty minutes to impress the bishop. The bishop responds that the audience did the same, noting no one gave the talk serious thought or effort.
Sunshine Returns After Long Raw Spell in Whitewright
Whitewright reports its first full day of sun in almost a month as Old Sol rose in a clear sky on Tuesday. Rain sleet and freezing temperatures persist with poor road conditions. rural mail carriers struggle on old high‑wheel autos as new cars can’t navigate bad roads.
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Whitewrighters
Old Sol
Whitewright
United States Weather Bureau
County Agent Outlines 1937 Soil Program Plans
Sherman Texas Grayson County agriculture committee heard county agent B F Gray describe the 1937 Federal soil up building program known as AAA. He said the plan offers a more liberalized approach, easier compliance, and promises greater benefits, with details to be settled in upcoming meetings before farmers enroll to stabilize farm prices to parity with business products.
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Sherman
B. F. Gray
Grayson County Agriculture Committee
AAA
Mr. Gray
Month of Bad Weather Strains Whitewright Relief Families
Bad weather in January left about a hundred Whitewright families in privation as WPA labor slowed due to rain sleet and cold. Mayor Echols said relief was least effective this winter. city ferried relief clients to Sherman for commodities but provisions were meager on return. A destitute farm family described hunger despite attempts to obtain food, groceries, and coffee from federal agencies and city aid funds.
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Whitewright
F. M. Echols
Sun
Sherman
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation
Mr. Echols
Solons Move to Protect Red River Fishing Rights
The Texas House adopted a resolution urging a legislative committee to press Oklahoma officials to permit Texans to fish in the Red River. It cites the 1819 treaty with Spain guaranteeing enjoyment of river rights and accuses Oklahoma game wardens of arresting fining and sometimes jailing Texans.
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Solons
Red River
Austin
House of Representatives
Senate
Oklahoma
Texas
United States
Spain
A. S. Bradfoot
Bonham
Republicans organize to oppose new deal acts in congress
The 89 House Republicans launched a militant campaign against Democratic proposals they view as harmful. They directed Leader Snell of New York to appoint a nine man policy committee to craft a party program. The aim is a cohesive minority to regain lost power.
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Washington
House
Rep
Snell
New York
Dust Bowl Lacks Rain As Floods Hit Ohio Valley
Washington reports continuing drought in the Dust Bowl with little rain despite floods in the Ohio River Valley. Officials warn drought conditions may worsen this summer unless rains arrive. soil remains powdery and prone to drifting, threatening Great Plains agriculture from the Dakotas to the Texas Panhandle.
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Washington
Great Plains
Ohio River
Soil Conservation Service
Middle West
John B. Kincer
Weather Bureau
Dakotas
Nebraska
Kansas
Colorado
Oklahoma
Texas Panhandles
New Mexico
Public Asked To Help Apprehend Kidnapper in Tacoma Boy Case
A Justice Department officer of the FBI appealed to Pacific Northwest residents to watch their neighbors for the abductor who kidnapped and killed 10-year-old Tacoma boy. With no clues, agents seek any information to identify the brutal killer who demanded 28 000 dollars and did not contact the father.
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Seattle
Federal Department of Justice
Charles Mattson
Pacific Northwest
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Tacoma
The Joy of Paying the Last Installment
A wry line notes that the rich may miss one thrill the rest enjoy. The quote frames debt and fulfillment as a common burden, contrasting wealth with the satisfaction of clearing payments.
Red Cross Needs Funds To Aid Victims of Flood
A Whitewright story notes Texas funds forecasts show deficits while nationwide flood relief intensifies. President Roosevelt backs Red Cross aid, urging $10 million. Local donations total $70.00 with many residents urged to contribute at city offices. follow-up lists planned.
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Red Cross
Ohio
Kentucky
West Virginia
Roosevelt
F. M. Echols
Grayson County
B. Wrenn Webb
R. Cates
W. A. Kirkpatrick
Vera Hickman Eile
M. D. Forgy
Sallye Hamilton
Mary Pumphrey
N. L. Manning
Fred Cook Jr
Iene
Tae Ij
Mrs
H. L. Crittenden
Davenport
Store
Cole & Davis i
Leaicaiel Tetermanens Hs
John L. Reeves
P. McGinnis
Omer Sanders
Lee Norris
Cei
Guy Hamilton
G. C. Stateville
Spelen
Gomer May
Ess Baska J. A. Yeager
IJ. M. Simmons
T. Craig
L. Beene
Claborn & Ryan
the Whitewright Sun
Imrs
George Hansard
R. T. Pennington
Hugh Trotter
H. W. Rev
Eee
Raymond Cates
Echols
Whitewright
Cotton ginned to Jan. 16 totals 11,956,808 running bales
Census Bureau reports 11,956,808 running bales ginned before January 16 from the 1936 crop, including 280,669 round bales and 14,686 American-Egyptian, with state totals led by Texas 2,808,644 and Mississippi 1,843,972. The 1936 crop is estimated at 12,407,000 equivalent 500-pound bales, compared with last season’s 10,638,000.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Agriculture Department
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
New Mexico
North Carolina
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
States
Papers battle to print editions amid floodwaters
In flood zones editors frantically try to publish as presses sink under water. Some cities manage thousands of copies per hour by hand or mimeograph, while others cannot publish at all as flood damage stalls operations. Cincinnati reports the struggle across multiple towns with fragile production.
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Cincinnati
Very Close Shave in New York Barbers Shop
Joseph Gabriel a barber was arrested for Sunday shaving in his shop. He told Magistrate Wieboldt the client was nervous about marriage and could not shave himself. The judge suspended the sentence, ruling Sunday labor as a misdemeanor unless a necessity.
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New York
Joseph Gabriel
Wieboldt
Aberdeen Man Describes Death as Peaceful After Accident
Theodore Prinz of Aberdeen described death as great peacefulness and rich contentment after five minutes clinically dead following an automobile crash. He recalled a soft darkness, no fear, a warm new world, then awoke to pain in a hospital bed.
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Aberdeen
Wash
Theodore Prinz
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Fannin
Dust Bowl
Ohio Valley
Sun Office
Boy
General Revenue
Tom C. King
King
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