Adjournment Today Highlights Sulphur Tax Fight in Texas
The Texas legislature faces a sine die adjournment as House and Senate clash over sulphur tax revenue for state schools and institutions. Senate proposed about 5 million for the biennium trimmed to 2.2 million by the House. conference talks begin to craft a compromise. Revenue bills total about 800 thousand so far, with sulphur tax projected to yield 2 million yearly. House assigns numerous appropriations across penitentiary, summer schools, and state departments.
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Associated Press
Austin
Tex
House
Senate
Tom Pollard
Tyler
Walter Woodul
Houston
Nat Patton
Alamo
Agricultural and Mechanical College
Man Charged With Deserting Children Lodged in Jail Here
J G Marshall was arrested Tuesday night at Lubbock and brought to Amarillo on a grand jury indictment. The complaint was filed by juvenile officer Jessie N Ross. Marshall’s five children are dependents. three will be placed in separate homes, one will stay at the county farm, and the oldest remains in an Amarillo home.
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J. G. Marshall
Lubbock
Amarillo
Allen S. Johnson
Marshall
Jessie N. Ross
Ninois
Commissioners Court
Rittenberry & Carder
Commissioners
Cing
Beat
Weather summary for West Texas and New Mexico
Fair Thursday with warmish temperatures in West Texas and New Mexico. Amarillo hourly readings indicate a rise through the day with highs around 60s and lows near 50s, showing a warmer trend by afternoon.
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West Texas
New Mexico
Amarillo
Big Figures of Nation in Dry Testimony
Washington March 19 The House judiciary committee heard arguments from dry advocates on prohibition as improving social order from slums to colleges. Taft praised the law in a letter while Horace Taft submitted a speech. Josephus Daniels urged a century long trial despite costs.
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Associated Press
Washington
William Howard Taft
Josephus Daniels
Evangeline Booth
House Judiciary Committee
Taft
Horace D. Taft
Watertown
Conn
Rock Island Grain Rates Suspended by Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission suspended from March 20 to October 20, 1930 the Rock Island and Pacific tariff schedules that would cancel export rates on grain from Panhandle and Santa Fe stations in Oklahoma to Gulf ports in Louisiana and Alabama. The order delays the increases to allow a committee investigation of the schedules, noting they injure the public by raising interstate transport costs.
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Bascom N. Timmons
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission Today
Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company
Panhandle
Santa Fe
Oklahoma
Louisiana
Alabama
Gulf
Water Department Transfer Sparks City Commission Debate
A sum of ten thousand dollars was moved from the water department to the city general fund at Tuesday night's city commission meeting. Mayor Ernest C. Thompson commented that more utilities would be welcome, amid discussions on the transfer.
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Water Department
Ernest C. Thompson
Kansas Bank Bandits Planned Fatal Holdup Here
Kansas bank robbers planned a fatal hold up and hid in a San Jacinto house. sheriff Searches found the quarters deserted. The trio John Walker Clyde Rhea and Andrew Halliday faced Denver officers over the Amarillo scheme with wives and a girlfriend detained in Missouri.
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Kansas
Manter, Kans
Denver
Colorado
Bill Thompson
John Walker
Clyde Rhea
Andrew Halliday
Amarillo
San Jacinto
Thompson
Globe
Walker
Halliday
Goldie Hedgworth
C. A. Hickman
Eads
Colo
Amarillo Style Show Monday Night Window Festival Starts
The Annual Spring Window Style Show will be citywide with over forty merchants taking part. Monday at 7 30 p m merchants unveil their windows with new Spring merchandise some featuring living models and novel ideas for Amarillo. The Globe News will provide music from Dave Derdens band a 20 piece ensemble on two trucks for city wide concerts. Visitors are invited to view fashions and partake in a public contest with cash prizes.
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Amarillo
The
Globe News
Dave Derden
Oklahoma Reports New Jake Victims In State
Oklahoma health officials reported scattered new cases of the Jamaica ginger linked ailment across Pauls Valley and Newkirk. The malady partially paralyzes limbs and had affected about 400 people in Oklahoma City last week, with little improvement after two weeks as victims still rely on canes.
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United Press
Oklahoma City
Pauls Valley
Newkirk
Grain Survey for Storage is Completed
The Farmers National Grain Corporation, a government cooperative, finished a nationwide survey of elevator needs and announced loan commitments for all stockholders as the two day executive session concluded. Territorial loan allotments for grain merchandising and facility financing were defined, with decisions based on merit and applicant qualifications. The section notes several loan applications in progress.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Farmers National Grain Corporation
Fire at Kirin cinema in Manchuria kills 76
Dispatches report 76 dead 16 missing and many injured after a film explosion sparked a theatre fire in Kirin Manchuria. Authorities say most victims were Chinese including relatives of officials. Fire occurred Tuesday night.
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Kirin
Manchuria
Associated Press
Tokyo
Rengo
Air trip may lead to West Coast hideout
CAPTIVE 60 years old son flying via El Paso is for mer grid star at Oklahoma University Obie Brinton, San Angelo, who arrived here tonight to confer with the American consul at James, regarding steps to
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Son
EL Paso
Oklahoma University
Associated Press
Obie Brinton
San Angelo
James
Bristow Football Captain Flew for Ransom Money
Norman, Okla March 19 Gordon Obie Bristow captained the University of Oklahoma football team in 1926 he flew from San Angelo Texas today with ransom money toward Mazatlan Mexico where his father J E Bristow was reported held prisoner Bristow enrolled at the university from 1918 to 1925 studying law
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Norman
Okla
Gordon Obie Bristow
San Angelo
Tex
Mazatlan
Mexico
University of Oklahoma
J. E. Bristow
Ardmore
Bristow
University
Texan Kidnapped by Mexican Bandits Threatens Air Rescue
J B Bristow, 60, San Angelo oil operator, held for ransom by Mexican bandits since March 10. Efforts to secure his release continue as relatives negotiate with the bandits via the American consul in Juarez. Bristow may fly to Mazatlan to deal directly if talks fail. ransom estimates range from 1500 to 16000 dollars.
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Presay
San Angelo
Texas
Mar
J. B. Bristow
Jaurez
Mexico
Gordon Obie Bristow
Hi Paso
Mazatlan
el Paso
Frederick Yenny
Tepic
Navarite
Brixton
Urgent Meeting Friday on Panhandle Proration
A Friday morning meeting at 10 in Pampa brings oil operators from the Panhandle together with a Texas Railroad Commission representative to discuss enforced proration and a plan prepared by a committee named at the March 14 operators meeting. The gathering targets all operators and landowners, promising clear representation of both sides and potential impact on future field development.
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Pampa
Panhandle
Railroad Commission of Texas
Walk-to-Town Movement Started by Citizens
Amarillo business men who walk to town each morning urge friends not to offer rides. The movement favors pedestrians walking on the left side of the street to prove they prefer walking over riding. A lawyer notes being stopped four times in one block and supports walking on the left as a public cue.
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Amarillo
Globe
Conference in Session Here Raises $2200 Pledges Reported
The Northwest Texas Conference of the Woman's Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church South raised funds totaling 22,500 of 26,600 pledged with an all day session at Polk Street Methodist Church. Amarillo 4,000 Clarendon 3,300 Vernon 4,200 Plainview 5,000 Stanford 2,200 Sweetwater 4,000 other districts Abilene and Lubbock did not report. Most reports showed gains over last year while the session adopted reports from the council meeting.
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Conference Council
Northwest Texas
The
Woman's Missionary Society, Methodisl Episcopal Church
South
Polk Street Methodist Church
Abilene
Tubbock
Amarillo
Clarendon
Vernon
Plainview
Stanford
Sweetwater
Oil Tariff Fails In Senate Vote Amid Lobby Tactics
The Senate rejected a one dollar crude oil duty and 50 percent ad valorem on by products after seven hours of clashes over tariffs and lobby reforms. An attempted Pine compromise failed 42 to 28 while party lines split the roll call, showing 21 Republicans for Thomas and 21 against, with Democrats broadly mixed. Key senators from both parties participated as the chamber debated duties, with enduring tensions over use of tariff revenue and price triggers.
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Senate
Thomas
Democrat
Oklahoma
Tariff Commission
Pine
Hale
Maine
Keyes
New Hampshire
Pittman
Nevada
Apnet
Fort Worth Banker Major K. M. Van Zandt Dead at 93
Major K. M. Van Zandt 93 president of The Fort Worth National Bank, Texan figure and Confederate veteran, died in Fort Worth. He will be buried at 3 p m tomorrow after lying in state from 1 p m. City pauses business after noon for his funeral.
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Associated Press
Fort Worth
Mar
K. M. van Zandt
Fort Worth National Bank
Pioneer Texan
Texas
Texas Bankers
First Christian Church
van Zandt
Texas Senate
Fashion parade prompts women to hire dressmakers
Amarillo girls and women plan outfits for the spring parade by watching the News-Globe Want Ads for dressmaker listings. Dressmakers are busy, with several taking ads as short as ten words for one week at $1.50, and many ads include a phone contact at 6262.
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Amarillo
News-Globe
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