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Reunion in Amarillo. To the White House went a plea from Widow Mary Phillips of Shawnee, Okla. Her twin sons, Bobby and Billy, 19, had enlisted together, had gone to Sheppard Field, Tex. for training together. Now for the first time in their lives, they had been separated. One had been transferred to Arizona, the other to Amarillo Field in Texas. Could they not please be reunited...
Married. Thomas Terry ("Tom") Connally, 64, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Lucile Sanderson Sheppard, 51, widow of Morris Sheppard, late dry Senator from Texas; in New Orleans. Senator Connally had been a widower six years; Senator Sheppard died in April...
...Sheppard Field...
Introduced a year ago by the late Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, the Sheppard Bill was almost entirely written by dynamic, bright-eyed, 70-year-old Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith, now serving her ninth term as W.C.T.U. president. A onetime resident of Iowa, where she scared the State Legislature silly, she is a great backroom politician, rates high with reporters, to whom she furnishes plenty of sprightly copy...
...principal task of the Temperance Union now is to create favorable sympathy for the Sheppard Bill, now before Congress, to prohibit prostitution and drinking in and around training centers. Draftees, away from their families for the first time, are often initiated into Army circles with a good drunk, Mrs. Putnam said...