Senate weighs farm relief and debt plan this week
The Senate and House move toward a farm relief bill with hopes to defeat the debt plan championed by Hoover critics. Administration leaders expect conference by week’s end and a session to advance agricultural legislation. Meanwhile Mellon’s Treasury status and Heflin’s anti Catholic attack case loom in Congress.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Hoover
House
Mellon
Andrew W. Mellon
Ways and Means Committee
Heflin
Brockton
Mass
Elaborate Plans for Death by Own Action Reported
New Orleans April 28 James B Otis prominent businessman died here today from self administered poison and a gun shot wound of yesterday He also set fire to his office before attempting death by own action he had told hospital attendants
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Associated Press
New Orleans
James B. Otis
Shriners Plan May 16 Spring Ceremonial in Panhandle
Khiva Temple officials announce the spring ceremonial of A. A. O. N. M. S. on May 16 drawing about 2000 Shriners from the Panhandle of Texas and other states. A 56 member novice class crosses desert heat for induction with representatives from Shrine Temples across North America. After a 11 a.m. parade, a luncheon, and a ceremonial session, the day closes with the potentate J. N. Riggs and Jady ball at the Masonic Temple and a 9 p.m. dance with an orchestra.
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Shrine
Cmn
Khiva Shrine
Drums and Bugle Corps
Nobility of the
Order and Shrine Clubs
Municipal Auditorium
J. N. Riggs
Jady
Masonic Temple
Fifth Avenue
Fillmore Street
Prison plant site debate and Graves bill stance
A political figure rejects claims about his views on a Graves prison site bill. He defends free selection of a plant site while affirming his opposition to the Graves measure.
Moody to write own prison site bill in open relocation fight
Governor Moody announced he will draft a prison relocation bill embracing open site selection, disavowing Graves or a compromise. The plan keeps to a wide open site concept seen in Wolbrook Senate bills and contrasts with alternatives favoring Ramsey Darrington or Walker County locations. Moody released a flood protection survey showing $91 per acre and potential exclusion of Ramsey Darrington farms from levee plans.
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Raymond Brooks
Daily News
Austin
Dan Moody
Harry N. Graves
Georgetown
Moody
Moody Friday
Graves
Senate
T. J. Wolbrook
Walker County
Huntsville
Turner and Loy
Ramsey
Darrington
Brazoria County
Tillotson
Sealey
State Reclamation Department
Representative Graves
House Committee On Penitentiaries
Moody’s
House
Prominent Texas Hotel Director A. H. Hilton Jr Dies
El Paso reports the death of A. H. Hilton Jr a Hilton Hotels Inc director and former Dallas Hilton Hotel manager after months of illness. Knights of Columbus held services at 5 30 p m. The body was sent to Dallas for a Requiem High Mass at Holy Trinity Church and burial at Calvary Cemetery is planned.
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Associated Press
EL Paso
Texas
A. H. Hilton, Jr
Hilton Hotels, Inc
Hilton
Dallas
el Paso Knights of Columbus
Holy Trinity Church
Calvary Cemetery
Lindberghs Fiancée Heads to St Louis from Houston
Miss Ann Morrow fiancee of Col. Charles A Lindbergh left Houston at 10 30 a m today for St Louis continuing a trip from Mexico City to New York. She paused 18 hours here to visit friends Mr and Mrs E K Dillingham and declined to speak with local reporters.
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Associated Press
Houston
Ann Morrow
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
St. Louis
Mexico City
New York
E. K. Dillingham
Reform Attorney in Florida Is Kidnapped And Beaten
James Bickers a Tampa reform attorney active against local lawlessness was abducted by five men as he returned from church and later taken to City hospital with multiple head and body injuries. Police deputies and officers hunted the suspects. an unidentified man delivered him for treatment.
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Associated Press
St, Petersburg
Fla
James Bickets
Bickers
Gladstone Beattle
600 Girls Receiving Physical Education In Teachers College
The West Texas State Teachers College women's physical department serves 600 students this year. Each degree candidate must complete at least two years in physical education, with the Swedish gymnastics system, corrective work, and dance used to build health, rhythm, and poise. Intercollegiate contests are avoided to protect health, but a strong women's athletic association offers major and minor sports, with awards for points earned. The campus also hosts the Texas Outing Club for supervised outdoor activities.
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Canyon
West Texas State Teachers College
Ethel Grey Bhaw
Teachers College
Department of Physical Education
Texas
United States
Women's Athletic Association
Texas Outing Club
Panhandle Music Festival Tickets Sell Fast
The Panhandle Music festival at Amarillo College of Music runs May 8 9 10 with hundreds of regional musicians. Rosalinda Morini performs May 8, violinist Francis Macmillen appears May 9, and tenor Don Jose Mojica closes May 10. Season tickets for all three nights range from 1.50 to 5.00.
Third torch slaying in New York this year
A charred young woman, likely not over 22, was found half hidden in a ravine between Scarsdale and Ardeley. Police seek her identity while investigators note this is the third such torch slaying in New York within a year, with only scraps of her flowered dress fabric as clues.
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New York
Scarsdale
Ardeley
Grade Crossings Crash Kills Nine In New Hampton
Nine members of one family die when an Erie Railroad train strikes their car at a grade crossing near Middleton New York. Antonio Vianchi wife and eight children perish. two other relatives die later in hospital. Cited ages and names include Lucy 16 Marian 18 George 8 Frank 6 Rose 4.
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New Hampton
New York-Chicago
Erie Railroad
Antonio Vianchi
Mr. Vianchi
Lucy
Marian
George
Frank
Rose
Vianehia
Air liner believed crashed near Needles California
A red airplane likely a liner from Arizona to Los Angeles crashed about 2,000 feet up nine miles north of Needles near Lake Tapia. The report was telephoned to officials from the scene.
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Associated Press
Needles
Calif
Arizona
Los Angeles
Lake Tapia
Gang War Flare Leaves One Dead in Chicago Saloon
Two dawn shootouts in Chicago left Enrico Ardini dead in his car after a gunman wound. Benny Butler, fleeing the scene, was shot by police. Mignon Stevens, a cabaret singer, described the car ambush as Butler’s dispute turned deadly. Detectives subdued another gunman during the chaos.
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Chicago
Associated Prove
South Side
Enrico Ardini
Twenty-sixth Street Grill
Arduini
Frank de Grazia
Benny Butler
Mignon Stevens
Butler
Stanton- McGovern
Rebels reportedly on the run in Sonora as Mexico faces civil war
In Mexico City April reports say Gen Almazan leads 10 000 troops toward Sonora while Gen Bliss maintains southern headquarters at Navajoa. Rebels bombed near Obregon and trains moved through Empalme under federal bombardment. Portes Gil returns to the capital to review field reports amid signs of rebel retreat elsewhere.
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Mexicat
A. Almazan
el Pulpito Canyon
Sonora
PL Bliss Caller
Navajoa
Ciudad Obregon
Cuernavaca
Bodies of two men found with throats cut in speakeasy
New York police found the bodies of Thomas Colley alias John Shields and John Col lina in a back room of a speakeasy with throats cut and faces slashed. A bread knife, hand saw, and a pair of scissors were found at the scene. Authorities cited a drunken brawl theory but could not confirm if either man killed the other or if others were involved.
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Associated Preas
New York
Thomas Colley
John Shields
John Colelina
Colleylay
Collins
Whalen
Weather Outlook for Oklahoma Texas and East Texas
Oklahoma and West Texas mostly fair Monday and Tuesday with clouds and a risk of unsettled conditions. East Texas unsettled Monday and Tuesday with likely thunder showers. Light to moderate coastal winds mainly from the south.
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West
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