Grayson County Beer Election Petitions Circulating
Petitions calling for separate elections on beer legalization in Whitewright and Justice Precinct No 3 are being circulated ahead of the August 26 state and county vote. Signatures total 72 in the city petition and 97 in the precinct petition, with about 350 city voters and 1,300 in the precinct. Legal debate centers on attorney general Allred’s ruling that 3.2 beer must be voted back into legality.
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City Commission
Commissioners’ Court of
Grayson County
Whitewright
Justice
Sherman, Denison
North Bells
Allred
Texas
Preston Everheart Post
American Legion
Bill Hames
Denison
John Reeves
Sherman
Greater Speed Is Sought for Recovery Act
President Roosevelt and advisers push to quicken code formation for national recovery. Officials seek removal of industry obstacles to wage and hour codes, with a Thursday conference to decide methods. Cotton textiles have led. others lag behind the Johnson plan.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Roper
Cabinet Advisory Committee On Industry
Hugh S. Johnson
National Recovery
Johnson
Hurricane Aims at Texas Coast Near Brownsville
A violent tropical disturbance moved through the Gulf toward the lower Texas Coast. Weather officials warned ships and residents in its path as the storm, estimated about 300 miles southeast of Brownsville, was seen heading toward the mouth of the Rio Grande today. Barometer readings fell steadily from Corpus Christi to Brownsville, signaling the approaching hurricane.
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Brownsville
Gulf of Mexico
Texas
Government Weather Bureau
Rio Grande
Corpus Christi
Kentuckytown Club Sponsors Cream Supper
The Kentuckytown club hosts an ice cream supper on the school lawn this Saturday night, July 8. Attendees can enjoy ice cream and cake while local talent provides music.
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Kentuckytown Club
Kentuckytown
Union Meeting to Be Prohibition Rally in Sherman
Sherman pastors decide to turn Sunday night union services at Houston Street Park into a prohibition rally under religious auspices. The Sherman Pastors' Association held the decision at the Methodist Church Tuesday night.
Tub of Beer Spilled After Car Ditches at Whitewright
A fishing party from Denison, two men and a wife, were returning from Leonard Lake when the car went off the road at the Cotton Belt underpass one mile east of Whitewright. The vehicle rolled in a ditch, windows shattered, and a tub of ice and beer was dumped. George Bennett carried the injured to town where a doctor treated a bad cut on the woman’s forehead and other hurts on all three.
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Cotton Belt
Whitewright
Leonard Lake
George Bennett
Automobile Hits Mule Injuring Four on Whitewright Road
Four people escaped serious injury when Mr. W. R. Hooper's car struck a mule on the Whitewright-Trenton highway. The auto rolled twice. no major wounds except Mrs. Devenport with a badly wrenched back. The mule died after being struck. its owner was A. F. Rushing, north of Trenton.
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W. R. Hooper
Emory Christian
Leon Devenport
Whitewright- Trenton
Hooper
Devenport
Pittsburg
A. F. Rushing
Trenton
Corn and Hog Levy Planned As Next Step
Washington sources report Farm Administrators drafting a processing tax on hogs by October 1 to raise up to 150 million dollars to fund applying the farm act to corn and swine. Pending July meetings with corn and hog producers, the plan aims to measure sentiment before finalizing the corn hog program by August 1.
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Washington
Wallace
Aberdeen founder Samuel Benn credits birth year 1832 for long life
ABERDEEN Wash Samuel Benn founder of Aberdeen was interviewed on his one hundred and first birthday anniversary. When asked to attribute his long life to health, he answered I attribute my great age principally to the fact that I was born in 1832.
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Aberdeen
Wash
Samuel Benn
Whitewright Cotton Acreage Reduction Drive Nears End
The local committee has signed about 150 farmers on cotton reduction contracts by Wednesday night, with about 25 new signups that day. Most take the option plan paying 6 cents a pound with government covering insurance and storage. contracts must be mailed by Saturday night.
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Whitewright
Washington
New York
Kirkpatrick
Prison Board Orders Plowing Up Cotton
The Texas Prison Board ends its meeting by firing two Eastham farm guards for flogging convicts and bars guards from whipping without a proper order. It also approves plowing up 25 percent of the prison system’s cotton acreage and delegates the crop decision to General Manager Lee Simmons and the agricultural committee.
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Houston
Texas Prison Board
Eastham Farm
W. A. Paddock
B. B. Monzingo
Captain Monzingo
Lee Simmons
Grain prices hold steady as wheat and oats rise
Local buyers paid 92 cents for wheat and 41 to 43 cents for oats on Thursday morning, about three times last year’s wheat and four times oats. Cotton trades around 10 cents per pound. Hedgehogs gain popularity as living pests in England.
Veterans' cuts under Economy Act shown
Washington reports that postwar budget cuts hit veterans sharply under Congress backed changes. 581.988 million dollars appropriated this year versus 927.949 million last year. 400 to 500 thousand ex servicemen receive final checks, including 387 thousand World War veterans partially disabled. Rerating plans affect 338 thousand disabled veterans with new schedules and board reviews. Presumptive cases face 25 percent cut until Oct 31, then average 18 percent reduction. Total disabled World War and Spanish American veterans fixed base pay becomes 30 dollars monthly. many Spanish War veterans lose benefits. Funding saves about 750 thousand dollars by eliminating fraud and mistakes. Emergency retired officers drop from 6014 to about 2500 with 3 million dollars allotted.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Veterans’ Administration
Veterans’ Hospitals
Fireworks Explosion in Sanger Store Kills Child
Jim Tom Gentle five, son of Mr and Mrs R E Gentle of Sanger, died from burns after a store fireworks blast in his uncle’s shop. His nine year old brother Billy was burned while trying to rescue him. The incident occurred late Monday twelve miles north of Denton.
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Denton
Jim Tom Gentle
R. E. Gentle
Sanger
Jim Tom
Billy
Church threats expel beer drinkers in California
The Southern California Methodist Conference opposed any move to liberalize prohibition. It adopted a resolution stating that any person who persists in drinking beer after admonition by a pastor will be expelled from the church.
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Long Beach
Calif
Southern California Methodist Conference
American lecturer sparks Glasgow audience with claim
An American lecturer in Glasgow surprised his audience by declaring that taciturnity was one of the Yankee characteristics.
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Glasgow
Scotland
World Economic Conference Quits Amid Monetary Clash
Leaders of gold and non gold nations halted the global conference after a deep rift on monetary policy. France led the gold bloc with a hard stance, while the United States and other non gold nations pushed for a different approach. The European group signaled possible revival but delayed action.
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London
New World
France
United States
Roosevelt
Two Tornadoes Hit Fate injuring Five
Two tornadoes struck Fate thirty miles northeast of Dallas. Five people were injured none seriously. Victims include Mrs H F Peek hit by a timber, John Pullens Cecil Lancaster cut by glass from a blown windshield. an unidentified woman and Henry Hale injured. Eight residences were demolished and a warehouse gin and other buildings damaged. Pullens and Lancaster from Royse City. Fate population about 300.
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H. F. Peek
John Pullens
Cecil Lancaster
Henry Hale
Pullens
Lancaster
Royse City
Printers Adopt Five Day Week Code in Dallas Zone
Dallas printers of the Texas Graphic Arts Association approved a code for a five eight hour work week with flexible shifts and left minimum wage decisions to a national meeting in Chicago. The plan includes price standardization later by a special committee and prohibits defaming competitors breach of contract and industrial espionage. It endorses establishing central estimating bureaus in large cities and bans selling below production cost plus a fair profit.
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Dallas
Texas Graphic Arts Association
Chicago
C. J. Crampton
Pat Etheridge
Sam Holloway
Deport
George Bowman
Henderson
Injured Man Willard Dies After Train Incident Near Celina
Albert S. Jess Willard born Oct 8 1897 Celina died at St. Vincent's Sanitarium Sherman at 4 36 pm Tuesday after being found critically injured Sunday morning beside the Katy track three miles north of Whitewright. Funeral held in Celina. Survived by mother Mrs J W Willard Dallas sister Mrs Vernon Taylor Hillsboro brother J Wendell Willard Wolfe City. Police and Katy investigators suspect beating and abandonment atop a boxcar with blood evidence on the car May indicate assault rather than fall from the train.
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Albert S
Jess) Willard
Katy
Whitewright
St. Vincent’s
Sherman
Celina
W. M. Pierson
R. L. Sears
Waldo
Dallas
Masonic Lodge
Dallas Lodge
Willard
WFAA
Mr. Willard
J. W. Willard
Katy Railroad
Denison
Gladstone Drive
Vernon Taylor
Hillsboro
J. Wendell Willard
Wolfe City
Sheriff’s Department
Bells
Planters Gin Receives New Manager W P Vaughn
W P Vaughn, longtime gin operator and cotton buyer, is named manager of the Planters gin plant owned by Commerce interests. He succeeds J N Fain of Sherman, who managed last season. Vaughn, known in Whitewright and Ida communities, has lived on a farm and previously ran gins in Whitewright and Canaan. He sold his gin interests six years ago and has since worked in the grain business and most recently operated a Texaco service station.
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W. P. Vaughn
Commerce People
J. N. Fain
Sherman
Vaughn
Whitewright
Ida
Canaan
Four Witnesses Slain After Gordon Tax Evasion Charge
Four government witnesses against Waxey Gordon, a racketeer charged with income tax evasion, have been killed by gangsters since his arrest. Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Dewey refused to name the dead, citing safety. Police records note thirty four gang killings since March. trial date set for August 7.
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New York
Waxey Gordon
United States
Thomas E. Dewey
Gordon
Francis Caffey
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Prohibition
Commerce
Prison Board
England
Veterans
Church
World Economic Conference
Planters Gin
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