Red River Dam Appropriation Voted by House
The House vote blocked a government subsidy plan to boost cotton exports. Senator Bankhead proposed a compromise limiting subsidies to the 1939 crop. the Senate declined to suspend rules, 37 to 36, failing to approve the rider to the Agriculture Department appropriation bill.
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Red River
Washington
Senate
Agriculture Department
United States
John H. Bankhead
Dem
Alabama
Chamber
Free Spending By Congress Deplored By the President
President Roosevelt blasted Congress for free spending and broken pledges to fund farm parity payments. He warned new taxes may be required as Senate boosts the record agricultural appropriation and adds money for surplus disposal and a cotton subsidy. Treasury head Morgenthau backs tax action to curb deficits.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Senate Actin
House
Senate
John Bankhead
Dem
Alabama
Morgenthau
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau Jr
Treasury
Congressional
Congressinal
Big Bell to Toll at Every Traffic Death
Texas state police proposed a large bell on the Capitol grounds to toll for each traffic fatality. Homer Garrison Jr. said the bell would alert motorists via a state radio network after highway patrols notify Austin of fatal accidents. In 1938 Texas recorded 1,610 traffic deaths and 14,573 injuries with about 10 percent of the injured likely permanently crippled.
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Austin
Texas
Homer Garrison Jr
State Capitol
Garrison
Final Meeting of Grammar School PTA
The Grammar School Parent-Teacher Association held its final meeting of the year in the grammar school auditorium. President Mrs C J Meador and secretary Mrs Paul Ryan presided and read minutes. Discussions covered next year’s lunch program, a $5 donation for playground equipment, summer recreation talks, and keeping the library open mornings with Mrs Myrick on duty to repair and catalog books. The third grade earned a pot plant for highest representation.
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Grammar School
Parent-Teacher Association
C. J. Meador
Paul Ryan
Clara Myrick
Newton Manning
L. O. Evans
Glass Notes Say Wilson Wished For Third Term
Washington notes by Senator Glass from 1920 reveal President Wilson desired a third term to push League of Nations policy. The biographers quote Grayson and Burleson detailing Wilson’s health doubts and intent to resign after the covenant was adopted.
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Glass
Wilson
Washington
Senator Glass
League of Nations
Carter Glass
Rixey Smith
Virginia
Norman Beasley
Longman's Green & Co
Federal Reserve System
Albert S
Burleson
Latter
MacAdoo
Grayson
Covenant
San Francisco
Astrologer predicts European war by spring 1940
Hollywood astrologer Norvell based his forecast on planetary charts, claiming Europe shows war conditions similar to 1914. He warned war in Europe before spring 1940, with the United States limited to aiding democracies economically. He also predicted Hitler would die violently within two years and Mussolini would lose power.
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Hollywood
Norvell
Europe
Mars
Hitler
Mussolini
United States
Who Is a Mother Vital Religion Piece
A short essay argues that motherhood is a heart essence, not biological, praising mothers who bear children, adopt or nurture others, and stressing unsel f ish love as central to religion. It cites Jesus and asserts the mother spirit lies at life’s center, with mothers as the greatest of kin.
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Jesus
Son Returns With Kerosene Mother Ordered in 1908
In Wheatland Pennsylvania Anthony Kesey, missing since age 13 after taking a kerosene errand, returns 31 years later to his mother Veronica Kesey. The mother embraces him amid relief and prayers answered. He had worked on Western Pennsylvania farms and with a circus during his absence. He plans to settle and reconnect with family.
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Wheatland
Anthony Kesey
Veronica Kesey
Pennsylvania
Kesey
Methodists to intensify drive against liquor
Kansas City dispatch reports the United Methodist Church conference overwhelmingly rejected relaxing alcohol rules. A church discipline section now says any member who persists in using buying or selling intoxicants after private admonition shall face trial and possible expulsion upon conviction. The Rev. George Fowler urged discretionary trials to focus on fighting the liquor traffic.
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Kansas City
New United Methodist Church
Uniting Conference
George Fowler
Chicago
Cotton Belt seeks withdrawal of Texas track
The St Louis Southwestern Railway Company of Texas asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to abandon 40 miles of track between Corsicana and Hillsboro Texas. The line operated at a deficit of more than $20,000 in 1938.
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Washington
St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt) Railway Company of Texas
Interstate Commerce Commission
Corsicana
Hillsboro
Texas
Dewey Garner Choices In Poll
A Democratic and an International News Service poll show Garner and Dewey as the leading choices for the 1940 presidential nomination. Garner leads Democrats with 45.3 percent. Dewey tops Republicans at 44.8 percent. Popular regional shifts and cross-party comparisons are noted.
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Garner
Thomas E. Dewey
New York City
Emil Hurja
Democratic Statistical Authority
Hurja
Farley
Roosevelt
Hull
Clark
Missouri
Paul V. McNutt
Indiana
Horja
Dewey
Vandenberg
Michigan
Taft
Ohio
Alf M. Landon
Mayor LaGuardia
International News Service
Herbert Hoover
London
LaGuardia
INS
Tenant Farmer Can Move Now And Take His Garden Along
The Farm Security Administration has developed portable farm assets including gardens, hen coops and fences to help tenant farmers meet loan requirements. Portable gardens and coops allow relocation with crops, with a 20 by 5 foot garden capable of feeding a family year round. Costs range from a few dollars for homemade setups to about 25 dollars for factory made units.
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Dallas
Farm Security Administration
FSA
C. M. Evans
Sales Tax Amendment Is Killed by House
In Austin a minority of sixty blocked final passage of a constitutional amendment for a sales tax and natural resource levy to finance social security. The final vote was 83 to 60 against submission, with two pairs. The session faced confusion as hopes for pension revenue waned while talk of reviving a tax plan and possible adjournment dominated.
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Austin
Senate
Lee O'Daniel
House
O’daniel
Alfred Petsch
Rudolph Weinert
Petsch
E. H. Thornton Jr
G. C. Morris
Morris
R. Emmett Morse
B. T. Johnson
O. L. McAlister
S. J. Issacks
Travis B. Dean
Wallace cites looming farm surplus crisis at Senate hearing
Secretary Wallace warns of collapsing prices for pork, milk, butter, eggs, and poultry as surpluses grow with farming abundance. He cites cotton as most acute and suggests subsidized consumption or remedial measures to aid producers, middlemen, and consumers while exploring the food order stamp plan as a possible distribution channel.
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Washington, D. C
Wallace
Senate Appropriations Committee
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation
State Fair of Texas to Host 500000 School Contests
More than five hundred thousand students will enter contests and exhibits at the State Fair of Texas from October 7 through 22. The estimate comes from the State Department of Education, led by superintendent L. A. Wood.
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Texas
Departent of Education
L. A. Wood
Attorney Challenges Tax Sales Without Suits in 1930s
Austin attorney John T. Smith argues in a legal brief that tax sales made under suits since 1932 are invalid. He says the 1931 constitutional amendment and 1932 enabling act authorize tax sales without suits, potentially voiding delinquent tax collection contracts and foreclosure sales by counties.
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Austin
John T. Smith
Smith
New Barbers Bill Wins Approval in Texas
A conference committee reached agreement on a new barbers bill after the prior measure was struck down. The bill allows 85 percent of county barbers to set prices with state board approval, fixes haircuts at 40 cents, and imposes fines for undercutting prices.
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Austin
Gerald Mann
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