Distribution of Bonus Bonds Delayed Until Summer
The Senate passed the soldier bonus bill after the veto, ordering $50 bonus bonds for 3,518,191 World War veterans due June 15. Distribution may not begin until July 1 and could extend to September due to the task’s magnitude. Bonds will be redeemable in cash after June 15 with 3 percent interest if not cashed.
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United States Senate
Washington
Department of Agriculture
AAA
Wallace
Fingerprint service offered for veterans bond bonus
Veterans are informed that their bonus bond applications require fingerprints and that The Sun will provide fingerprinting free of charge. The service is the same one previously offered when applying for adjusted service certificates and is available to all eligible veterans.
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The
Sun
Governor Oscar Kelly Allen Dies Suddenly in Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge Louisiana Gov Oscar Kelly Allen 55 who rose with Huey Long and inherited leadership after the late Senator died Tuesday of a cerebral hemorrhage. He collapsed as he prepared to leave the State House for his offices and died within an hour with his wife and two children at his bedside. His death shifts state power to Lieut Gov James A Noe and leaves the U S Senate seat Long held vacant after his assassination.
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Baton Rouge
Oscar Kelly Allen
Huey P. Long
Long
Louisiana
State House
Allen
James A. Noe
Monroe
Long-Allen
United States Senate
Senate plans probe of New Deal enemies
The Black Senate lobby committee opened a nationwide inquiry into the finances of semi political groups opposing the Roosevelt administration. About 5000 industrialists bankers merchants and business leaders deemed “angels” to anti Roose vel t movements were asked to detail contributions to Crusaders National Organization Inc Sentinel of the Republic New York State Economic Council American Federation of Utility Investors and Alfred E Smiths American Liberty League. They were asked to disclose contributions loans advances and refunds under oath though attendance could be compelled by subpoena.
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Washington
Senate
Alfred E. Smith
Liberty League
Crusaders
Crusaders’ National Organization, Inc
Sentinels of the Republic
New York State Economic Council
American Federation of Utility Investors, Inc
American Liberty League
Bonus bonds set for cash value at post offices
The government will pay cash value for non negotiable bonus bonds to veterans at post offices. Average payment is about 525 dollars per veteran, with roughly 100 holders in Whitewright area totaling about 52500 dollars locally. Application blanks will be available at veterans offices and VA units. mail rather than in person. identify by adjusted service certificate number, birth details, and four right hand fingerprints.
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Veterans Bureau
Washington
Whitewright
Veterans’ Administration
Veterans
Pensions for Vets Widows Soon a Major Issue
Washington report says the next major veterans policy battle in Congress will center on pensions for widows and dependents of World War veterans. House pensions chair Gasque has drafted a bill to standardize future pensions, estimated at 30 million dollars yearly, now under review by the veterans administration. While past moves expanded Spanish American War pensions and limited World War widows, lawmakers face the cost amid scarce relief funds.
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Washington
Congress
Gasque
Dem
South Carolina
House Pensions Committee
Veterans’ Administration
Senate Committee On Agriculture
Supreme Court
Senate
Bankhead
Alabama
House
Marvin Jones
Texas
Representative Treadway
Rep
Massachusetts
Wallace
Con
Administratio
AAA
Committee On Agriculture
Veteran identification and foreign residency procedure
The source explains that veterans are identified by service records or affidavits of public officers. It states that a veteran living abroad must be accredited by a consular official or other official recognized by the state department.
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State Department
Whitewright Rotary honors high school football team with sweaters
The Whitewright Rotary Club hosted a lunch featuring Whitewright High School football champions. Supt. H W Key presided and presented sweaters to players and coaches, praised the team’s season, and noted coach J T Bryant’s recent resignation for study in New York. Co captains Byron Teague and Paul Pierson led presentations. guests included Sherman Rotary members Lee Simmons and Tip Newell.
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Whitewright Rotary Club
Whitewright
H. W. Key
W. E. LaRoe
Whitewright Parent- Teacher Association
Byron Teague
Paul Pierson
J. T. Bryant
J. H. Burma
W. L. Stowers
New York
Stowers
Bryant
Mr. Burma
Joann Everheart
Sara Frances Teague
Jim Henry Andrews
Grace Chumbley
Grace Chumbley At the Piano. Miss Chumbley
Denton
Clay Horton
C. J. Meador
Lee Simmons
Tip Newell
Sherman Rotary Club
Veterans to spend big sums in Grayson County
Sherman audience reacts to passage of the soldiers bonus with expectations that about 3,000 local veterans will rapidly spend their share of 973,027. Respondents say funds will mostly pay debts, mortgages, home repairs, or purchase vehicles.
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Charles R. Simmons
American Legion
Snowstorm Sweeps Texas From Panhandle To Gulf Coast
Snow sleet and ice covered nearly all of Texas on Thursday causing damage to livestock and hindering traffic. The blizzard stretched from the Panhandle to the Rio Grande Valley and Gulf Coast, with four to ten inches of snow over North and Northwest Texas and abnormally low temperatures. Whitewright saw four to six inches, and a local thermometer read ten degrees above zero in the morning.
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Texas
Panhandle
Rio Grande Valley
Gulf Coast
Whitewright
Sherman and
Denison
Mahurin School Building Burns This Morning
A rural Mahurin school building about five miles northeast of Whitewright burned at 8:30 a m destroying a three room structure. The fire was attributed to the flue and insurance coverage was $3000 for the building and $500 for furniture. Until a new building is ready instruction continues in Mrs Renee Beazley s home with teachers Mrs Pattie Pritchett Fagg.
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Mahurin
Whitewright
Renee Beazley
Pattie Pritchett Fagg
Orphanage Dormitory Burns. Boys Evacuate In Cold
Greenville officials of Boles Orphans Home lose a two story brick dormitory housing eighty boys in a Tuesday fire. The blaze caused about thirty five thousand dollars in damage as firemen battled the cold to prevent further spread. All children were safely evacuated in an orderly manner and accounted for.
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Greenville
Boles Orphans
Greenville Fire Department
Tax on Unwed and Childless Couples Urged
Chicago sociologist Professor Frank G Dickinson proposed funding old age pensions by taxing unwed and childless individuals. He urged changing the federal social security act to tax incomes, with exemptions aligned to number of children, arguing nonparents do not share repayment for societal upbringing.
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Chicago
Frank G. Dickinson
Dickinson
University of Illinois
Union League Club
Farm Bill And Whitewright Hire Highlight Local News
A school board in Whitewright elected A. M. Gaddis of Collinsville to fill a high school vacancy caused by J. T. Bryant's resignation. Gaddis will teach mathematics and science and coach football, moving with his family this week to assume duties Monday. Also, Venice hosts its annual gondolier regatta as rice cooking tip suggests saving boiling water for starches.
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A. M. Gaddis
Collinsville
Whitewright Board of Education
J. T. Bryant
New York
Washington Square College
New York University
Gaddis
Austin College
Collinsville High School
Whitewright
Grayson County
Salary schedule set for Fannin officers
Fannin commissioners fixed salaries for county employees for the coming year. Core posts such as sheriff district clerk county attorney county clerk assessor collector and county judge are set at maximums with surplus if earned returned to county funds. Other positions maintain fee system levels with monthly stipends and per diem limits. An order directed time warrants totaling 117600 to retire deficit warrants and place the county on a cash basis.
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J. E. Spies
Wilbur Faxon
Allen Spies
C. R. Jones
Buster Cole
A. L. Chaffin
W. J. Young
Minnie Eldridge
Slage Jr. Announces Run for Grayson County DA
Sherman attorney R C Slagle Jr. announces candidacy for District Attorney of Grayson County. He previously served as assistant DA under Hubert Bookout and resigned over a year ago to focus on private practice. The Sun will publish his formal announcement in a later issue.
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R. C. Slagle Jr
Sherman
Grayson County
Slagle
Hubert Bookout
Mr. Slagle
the Sun
President asks Congress for $2.25 billion for bonus payments
President Roosevelt asked Congress to appropriate 2,249,178,375 dollars to fund the bonus payment act and 2,237,000,000 to establish an adjusted service certificate fund. The request included 5,500,000 for Veterans Administration expenses and 6,678,375 for Treasury administration, with no new taxes proposed.
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Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
Congress
Burns
Veterans’ Administration
Treasury
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England
State
Mahurin School
Venice
Fannin
R. C. Slage Jr
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