West Texans cheer as Small land bill signed by Governor
Governor Sterling signed the Small land bill validating title to fifteen sixteenths of minerals for owners of school, mineral and grazing land and granting them all oil lease bonuses. The measure passed the House on a stormy day after Supreme Court rulings in 1928. West Texas leaders had pushed for full bonus rights under the 1919 relinquishment act.
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Associated Press
Austin
Sterling
Supreme Court
Small
Stevenson
Junction
Wagff
Abilene
Af J
West Texas
Dan Moody
Wichita Henrys Reach A A U Final In Kansas City
The Wichita Henrys defeated the Los Angeles Athletic Club 33 to 20 in the National A A U basketball tournament semi finals in Kansas City. They will meet Kansas City Athletic Club, which beat Young Men's Institute 23 to 17, in the title game.
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Kansas City
Wichita Henrys
Los Angeles Athletic Club
Henrys
Kansas City Athletic Club
California
Young Men's Institute
Texas House panel backs driver licensing bill
The House committee on highways and motor traffic voted to report favorably a bill by Representatives Keller of Dallas and Bradley of Houston authorizing licensing of drivers of motor vehicles.
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Associated Press
Austin
House Committee On Highways and Motor Traffic Today
Keller
Dallas
Bradley
Houston
Unsettled Saturday Forecast for Amarillo and West Texas
Forecast notes unsettled conditions for Amarillo and vicinity on Saturday with fair and colder conditions elsewhere in West Texas and colder conditions in southeast New Mexico. Hourly temperature hints appear garbled but indicate a general cooling trend with a mix of fair weather in other regions.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
New Mexico
Landslide in France Drives Hundreds From Ruined Villages
CHAMBERY France March 18 Four hundred million cubic meters of rock snow and earth slid down the mountains at about 500 feet an hour forcing villagers from Granges Motte Beauce and nearby hamlets to flee. Army engineers planned to blow a bridge to divert the mass. No deaths reported. The slide damaged roads blocked passages and left hundreds homeless as trees barns and houses were swallowed by the moving hillside.
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Associated Press
Chambery
France
Granges
Bellecombe-Savoie
River Isere
Regulation of Public Utilities Favored in Address of Governor
Governor Ross S. Sterling urged establishing a state commission to regulate utilities in Texas. He praised the city attorney Petsch plan before the House, noting utilities’ vast influence, natural monopoly rights, and need for independent, well financed oversight to protect the public.
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Austin
Ross S. Sterling
Texas
Sterling
Petsch
House of Representatives
Eleven stabbed and beaten at Spandau clash
Eleven persons were stabbed and beaten at Spandau near Berlin during a fight between Fascists and Communists at the unemployed Labor Exchange. Fourteen Nazis were arrested.
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United Press Berlin
Spandau
Berlin
Unemployed Labor Exchange
Lost diamond cluster ring with platinum setting
A diamond cluster in a platinum ring has disappeared and a finder is asked to contact 1711 Harrison or dial 6986 or notify the News-Globe with any information.
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Harrison
News-Globe
Prince of Wales 10 Get Pink Bathroom on New Atlanta
In Southhampton on March 18 the New Atlanta was fitted with a pink bathroom for the Prince of Wales and a green one for Prince George. A reception room paneled in Apple Green with Tudor oak furniture was installed aboard the liner, which sailed today for Buenos Aires to bring the Princes home from their South American tour.
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Associated Press
Southhampton
Eng
Prince of Wales
Prince George
Atlanta
Buenos Aires
South America
Royal Travelers
Old Tack's Rose Bush Sale Nears Sellout
The second day of Old Tack's Annual Rose Bush Sale at 317 South Van Buren Street sees fewer than 1,000 bundles left as buyers rush to beat a likely Saturday finish. Each bundle of five rose bushes sells for $1, first come, first served.
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Tack
South
van Buren Street
J C Vance Injured In Underpass Incident
J C Vance a 72 year old retired farmer was found seriously injured in the East Third Avenue underpass by Santa Fe workers around 3 pm Friday. He was rushed to St Anthony's Hospital with arm and wrist fractures and a possible skull fracture. His condition was listed as fair late Friday. The Amarillo family includes his wife four sons and four daughters with two children living in Amarillo R E McGee and Lloyd.
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J. C. Vance
East Third Avenue
St. Anthony's Hospital
Santa Fe
Well control efforts fail at Texan No 4 University well
San Angelo March 13 Efforts to control Group No 1 Oil Corp Texan No 4 University in Reagan County have failed. A south wind drove oil and gas as a cloud over the crew injuring them and hindering work. Closing two vents was attempted to shut in the 8,587 foot deep well. experts from Oklahoma City offered to assist.
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Associated Press
San Angelo
No. 1 Oil Corporation
Texan No. 4 University
Reagan County
Sterling Criticizes Rail Commission and Pushes Conservation Board
Gov. Ross S. Sterling denounces the railroad commission’s hands off policy in East Texas oil fields and endorses a bill to create a three member conservation commission. He cites price drops and unregulated production as economic loss while urging tighter oil and gas regulation.
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Associated Press
Austin
Ross S. Sterling
Railroad Commission
East Texas
Sterling
Rusk-Gregg County
Prince of Wales sails to inaugurate Empire Exhibition
The Prince of Wales left Mar del Plata by plane for Buenos Aires to inaugurate the British Empire Trade Exhibition on the following day. The official party, including British Ambassador MacLeay, traveled ahead by train.
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Wales
Argentina
Associated Press
Mar del Plata
Prince of Wales
Buenos Aires
MacLeay
Former Congressman Freed on Charge of Whiskey Possession
Edward F. Denison, former Illinois congressman who served 16 years, was acquitted by a District of Columbia supreme court jury of liquor possession charges. The case stemmed from 24 bottles found in a trunk in his House office building rooms after a Panama trip with nephew Charles Lane Jr. Denison claimed mistaken baggage and that the trunk contained dishes for friends. The defense labeled the evidence a comedy of errors and Denison said he was persecuted not prosecuted.
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Associated Press
Washington
Edward FE. Denison
Illinois
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Denison
Panama
Charles £. Lane, Jr
St. Louis
Balbos
John J. Sirica
William E. Leahy
Prohibition Unit
Perryton Church Bell Honors Promise to Deceased Founder
In Perryton on March 11 the Methodist Church bell rang for an hour to honor T. J. Morgan who donated the bell and helped start the church. W. W. Bill McLarty rang it as Morgan had promised to toll two hours after his death, tying Old Ochiltree and Perryton lineage to the bell through decades.
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Perryton
W. W
Bill” McLarty
T. J. Morgan
Ochiltree County
Old Ochiltree
Texhoma
Bill
Spectacular Galveston Shooting Ends in Death
In downtown Galveston a gun battle left Clarence Ky Gregory dead and Mitchell Miche Frankovich gravely wounded. The incident followed liquor smuggling tensions between rival rings. Theodore Fatty Owens and James Jimmie Crabb were later released on bond as murder charges were filed and then changed.
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Associated Frens
Galveston
Clarence “Ky” Gregory
Mitchell “Miche” Frankovich
Houston
Theodore
Fatty” Owens
James
Jimmie” Crabb
Cigne
Gregory
Frankovich
Nather Owens
Crabb
Owens
Special Grand Jury to Probe Borger Slaying
Judge Clifford Braly ordered a special grand jury to convene Monday in Stinnett to investigate the fatal shooting of C. A. McLaury special deputy near Borger on Wednesday. John Evang alias Denver Blackie is jailed on a murder charge as authorities say McLaury was attempting to seize a gun during a Phillips camp case. Funeral services for McLaury were held today at Aspermont.
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Associated Press
Pampa
Clifford Braly
Stinnett
C. A. McLaury
Borger
John
Denver Blackie
Evang
MecLaury
Phillips Camp
McLaury
Aspermont
Burglar blamed for Niederwald double store fire
Burglar connection blamed for a morning fire that destroyed two Niederwald general merchandise stores. Loss estimated at 20000 dollars. The shops belonged to August Selliger and Richard Schulze. Hays county officers are investigating the blaze.
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United Prece Lockhart
Niederwald
Here
August Selliger
Richard Schulze
Hays County
Legislature hits 966 proposed laws amid sprint to finish
The Texas House ended its first 60 days with 64 more bills and a session total of 966 the most ever proposed in a single session. Committees face backlogs as bills flood in awaiting action before the sixty day limit. Adjournment delays extend to Monday with a bare quorum in the House and a 17 minute Senate session.
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Associated Press
Austin
House of Representatives
Tts
House
Senate
Hoover Vision for Oil Proration and Import Cuts
President Hoover plans proration of domestic oil output and limited imports to stabilize the distressed industry. Secretary Wilbur announced most major importers agreed to cut shipments, with Indiana’s Standard resisting due to existing contracts. The move aims to reduce imports by several million barrels annually without raising consumer oil prices.
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Associated Arena
Washington
Hoover
Wilbur
United States
East
Texas
Federal Oil Conservation Board
Big Cat
Lamont
Pederal Oil Conservation Board
Standard Il Company
Indiana
Mellon
Gulf Oil Company
Standard of New Jersey
Standard of
Royal Dutch Shell Company
Pan American Petroleum Company
Interior Secretary
McBride found guilty in Baird murder for third time
Abilene March 13 A jury in Baird district court finds C B McBride guilty of the 1927 Thanksgiving murder of a Glenn at Breckenridge The verdict fixes his punishment at 21 years in the penitentiary McBride claimed self defense A new trial will be sought The prior Breckenridge oil operator had 45 years in 1928 and 26 years at Albany in 1929 but both sentences were reversed.
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Associated Press
Abilene
C. B. McBride
Glenn
Breckenridge
Baird
McBride
Albany
Mertz Funeral Saturday for Pioneer Banker
Funeral services for M. L. Mertz pioneer banker will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday in San Angelo with local officials and community members gathering to pay respects to the longtime figure in finance.
Backyard Chickens for Extra Monthly Cash
Classified page lists hatcheries selling baby chicks with potential profit from a backyard flock. Readers are encouraged to review the ads for sources of income and ways to grow poultry into cash.
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