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Methodist University School of Theology (Dallas, Tex.). Theta Phi already has 85 older members, all of a strongly evangelical stamp and running largely to Southern Methodists and Baptists.* Initiation fee to Theta Phi: $10. Members will receive a monthly bulletin...
Chief advantage of the GHQ Air Force will be greater mobility and striking power. The Force will be divided into three "wings"-Atlantic Wing, with headquarters at Langley Field, Va.; Pacific Wing, at Hamilton Field, Calif., and Southern Wing, at Fort Crockett, Tex. (later to be moved to Barksdale Field, La.). A highly centralized combat unit of nearly 1,000 planes, the GHQ Air Force was officially regarded last week as the greatest move since the War in the modernization of U. S. military forces...
City fathers, bankers, businessmen, churchmen and miscellaneous bigwigs of Houston, Tex., gathered in Scottish Rite Cathedral for a solemn celebration of Jesse Holman Jones Day. In the audience, the big, genial chairman of Reconstruction Finance Corp. bowed his head, heard seven speakers eulogize him as a publicist, charitarian, politician, financier, "the most dominant and dynamic individual factor in the upbuilding and progress of our great city." Then a bronze bust was unveiled. Said Houstonman Jones: "I almost feel as if I have been listening to a funeral oration...
Died. William Thomas Waggoner, 82, "richest man west of the Mississippi" of a paralytic stroke; at Fort Worth, Tex. He got his start in 1872 when two successive deals in cattle left him with enough money to buy 600,000 acres of land in northern Texas. In 1902 when he found oil on his land he ignored it with the remark: "Damn the oil. I need water for my cattle." Eight years later he uncovered the great North Texas oil field. With a fortune estimated at $100,000,000 he amused himself in later years by building...
Amarillo, Tex...