No Special Session Planned Despite Highway Probe
Austin reports speaker Lee Satterwhite announced no immediate need for a special session, backing Attorney General Dan Moody’s probe into highway contracts. Moody aims to uncover excess profits and ensure proper contracting, with Governor Ferguson backing highway appointees amid political tensions. Simultaneously, the State Highway Commission cancelled two county maintenance contracts and declined to cancel 31 others, while Moody pursues remaining actions.
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Lee Satterwhite
House of Representatives
Satterwhite
Dan Moody
Miriam A. Ferguson
James KE. Ferguson
Highway Commission
Moody
Fergusons
Highway Department
James E. Ferguson
Govenor
State Highway Commission
Travis County Grand Jury
Ferguson
American Road Company
Texas
Camp County
Cocke and
Turner
Limestone County
Porter and
Herring
Mr. Moody
Commission
Shamrock and Memphis Robberies Prompt Officer Alerts
Shamrock and nearby towns face a rash of burglaries with a Ford trio suspected. The Wherry Jewelry Store in Memphis lost 3000 dollars in jewelry after a rear door entry. At Shamrock Forbis and Stone Mercantile’s safe blown, 1850 dollars cash and checks taken, plus silk dresses. Bloodhounds used, suspects linked to Carey Texas heist.
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Wherry
Memphis
Shamrock
Forbis and Stone Mercantile Company
Elk City
Amarillo
Jim Forbis
Forbis and Stone
Carey
Texas
Quebec Banker and Wife Found Slain
Montreal reported the bodies of Charles Bernard, manager of Banque Canadienne Nationale Rouge Mount branch, and his wife found at their home. Officials believe the killings occurred Friday night with the bank closed Saturday for unknown reasons. Neighbors found the manager on the stairs with his throat cut and the wife in bed with a bullet through her head.
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Montreal
Charles Bernard
Rouge Mount
Quebec
Banque Canadienne Nationale
Bernard
Taxpayers Urge Repeal Of Special Levies
Washington October 26 taxpayers urged the House Ways and Means Committee to repeal most special taxes now in effect. Citizens pressed removal of levies on autos trucks tires jewelry firearms cameras stocks brokers taxi operators and some stamp taxes. Lawmakers weighed how full repeal would affect the proposed 300 million dollar tax reduction program and noted inheritance tax stance amid state uniformity talks.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Mellon
Representative Treadway
Massachusetts
Treasury
Apple
Mills
New York
Green
Florida
Alabama
Peace Agreement Restores Calm in La Loma Conflict
An afternoon accord was reached between President Solorizano and General Emiliano Chamorro, who led a military movement and seized La Loma fortress yesterday. The pact aims to restore peace and end hostilities in the region.
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Manaulaa
Solorizano
Emiliano Chamorro
la Loma
Garner and Mellon clash over federal tax collection costs
Representative John N. Garner of Texas argues that Secretary Mellon cannot provide specific costs to collect each type of federal tax. Mellon cites a total collection cost of fifty million dollars, but refuses to itemize by tax. Garner claims costs are too high and that many taxed individuals should be exempt, urging a broader reform of income tax exemptions for married and single earners.
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Texas
Mellon
Iy Ivacom N. Timmons
Ashington Corres Abhington
John N. Garner
Hourte Ways and Means
The
Treasury
Congress
Ways An Means
Nealon
Democrata
Melion
Eastern Bankers and Utility Men Tour Plains Hereford
Report covers the arrival of eastern bankers and public utility men led by Judge I R Kelso in Hereford for a Texas Utilities Co. inspection. Banquet at the local Texas Utilities branch referenced plans and costs, with remarks by G A F Parker and Col George H Carter. The event highlighted Panhandle development, cheap power, irrigation, and future growth.
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Hereford
West Texas
Texas Utilities Co
I. R. Kelso
St. Louis
Texas Utilities Company
Lubbock
Idalou
Lorenzo
Ralls
Crosbyton
Floydada
Lockney
Plainview
Canyon
J Kelso
Bellet
W. R. Hill
Baptist Church
Panhandle
George H. Carter
Marlin
Community Power and Light Company
Wiley
Carl
Louie
Da.felden
Lous
Lawrence White
Spencer
Weather summary for Amarillo and eastern New Mexico
A fragmented weather note reports Tuesday mostly colder with freezing temperatures and continued light winds. The outlook suggests little change in temperature with increasing clouds and some precipitation possible later, affecting mainly Amarillo and surrounding eastern New Mexico areas.
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New Mexico
Store Robbery in Memphis Seizes $3000 in Diamonds
NHMPHIS Oct 26 A Ro Wherry store in Memphis was broken into Sunday afternoon between five and seven o clock and diamonds worth 3000 dollars were stolen. The thief entered via the back window and no clue has been found. It marks the first such robbery in Memphis in years.
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Memphis
Nhmphis
Ro Wherry
Borah Declares U S No Right to Unload Debt
Senator Borah, head of the Senate foreign relations committee, writes Charles Piez that Congress has no authority to unload war debts on U S taxpayers without the American people's authorization. He notes loans to France were made with pledges of repayment and criticizes suggesting acceptance of a French offer as imperialistic.
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Washington
Congress
United States
Borah
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Charles Piez
Ilinois Manufacturers’ Association
Piez
American Debt Commission
France
Czecho Slovak republic secures war debt funding
New York reports Czecho Slovakian republic arranging funding for its war debt with a private loan package totaling 26,000 16,000 000 and 18 000 000 conditional on repayment of a 1992 state loan. Underwriting by National City Company Kuhn Loeb Kidder Peabody and Hope and Company. Also a note on a decree reducing tariffs after eight years of foreign treaty.
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New York
Oct
United States
National City Company of
Kuhn, Loeb and Company
Kidder, Peabody and Company
Hope and Company
Amate Lending Cache
Lovakia Financial Institutione
New Yorkers Nominate Jones and Peeth for Hall of Fame Ballot
The year 96 announcement states naval commander John Paul Jones and actor Edwin Peeth were named for additions to America s Hall of Fame at New York University. The ballot listing appeared tonight, with the two figures among the nominees.
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New York
John Paul Jones
Edwin Peeth
America
New York University
Train Grash is Fatal to Youth Near Childress
Six year old T. J. Wall was killed instantly when a Fort Worth and Denver freight train struck an automobile at Cox farm crossing two miles east of Childress. Seventeen year old Jessie Vandiver was seriously injured along with three others bruised. The Wall family, traveling in a wide front seat, faced a windy day obstruction as a curtain on the north hid the train. The wreck left T. J. Wall dead and Vandiver with severe leg injuries. the others suffered minor hurts. The freight No. 50, under Conductor L. B. Wooten, was moving downhill toward Wichita Falls when the collision occurred.
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Childress
T. J. Wall
Jessie Vandiver
Fort Worth
Denver
Cox Farm Crossing
W. S. Wall, Jr
Gustine
Comanche County
T. J
Jesse Vandiver
Clifford Thomas
Wall
J. B. Morris
Walls
Clyde E. Owen
L. B. Wooten
Wichita Falls
C. Marley
Mother asks police aid to find secret marriage couple
In Miami Oklahoma on October 26, Mrs. Sarah Staton of the wealthy Staton family asked El Paso authorities to intercept 15 year old Esther Staton and Marion Hicks. Staton says the two, secretly married in Joplin Missouri, are en route to California and she plans to seek annulment.
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Miami
Okla
el Paso
Esther Staton
Sarah Staton
Marion Hicks
Joplin
Staton
California
Pinecreast Pacific Boss Testifies No Dividend Since 1917
MP President W Baldwin testified before the Interstate Commerce Commission during a hearing on a five percent freight rate increase for Western roads. He said Pineecart Pacific has not paid a dividend since its 1917 incorporation, citing heavy taxes and insufficient earnings. Baldwin noted taxes rose from 19 million in 1921 to 24 million in 1924 and pointed to other Western lines with little or no dividends over a decade.
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Chicago
W. Baldwin
Pineecart Pacific Today
Interstate Commerce Commission
C. B. Atchison
Baldwin
Kansas to take part in six state irrigation parley
Topeka Kans Oct 26 As assurance Kansas would be represented at a six state conference on Arkansas valley irrigation Governor Paulen said he would appoint George S Knapp state irrigation commissioner as Hansen delegate. The conference will include Oklahoma Texas Colorado Arkansas New Mexico and Kansas and seeks to urge Congress to control floods in the lower Mississippi valley by irrigation of waters in the Arkansas river and its tributaries.
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Topeka
Kans
Kansas
Arkansas Valley
Pauilen
Paulen
George 8
Knapp
Hansen
Oklahoma
Texas
Colorado
Arkansas
New Mexico
Congress
Miassssippi
Arkansas River
League council orders Greeks and Bulgarians to cease hostilities
Paris February 26 The League of Nations council issued what amounts to an ultimatum demanding Greece and Bulgaria immediately cease warfare and withdraw their troops behind their frontiers. The scene in the Peace Conference hall featured Woodrow Wilson and French Premier Clemenceau as the measure was read. The move marks a decisive test of the league to enforce peace and avert renewed war. The Greek decision reportedly hinges on Greece resisting until noon, with tension high and the council’s action described as a reproach to both nations for past failures. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)
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J. Clemenceau
Aa Prevdent
Stacento
Council of the League
Crerce
Bulgaria
League
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Hiritiah
Greece
Cireeee
Pulgara
Chamberlain
M. Carapanos
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U.S
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