T and P Railway Seeks ICC Hearing For West Texas Line
Officials of the Texas and Pacific Railway expect an Interstate Commerce Commission hearing within 90 days on the plan to build a 252 mile line north from Big Spring into the Panhandle. A preliminary survey will take about six weeks to complete before filing for the hearing, with docket placement uncertain.
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Fort Worth
The
Texas and Pacific Railway
Interstate Commerce Commission
West Texas
Big Spring
Panhandle
Commission
Bank Teller Triggers Riot Gas To Flee Bandits
In Kansas City two bandits entered Plaza Bank of Commerce on the Country Club Plaza. Teller Ernest Glenn activated tear gas, scattering the robbers who sped away in a car. Customer W Doty fired a riot gun. Miss Rosemary Sweeny stood on a safety island and yelled for calm. Bandits left without cash. damage = broken apartment windows. Doty, manager of Locarno apartments, said he would bill the bank.
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United Press
Kansas City
Bank of Commerce
Country Club Plaza
Ernest Glenn
Teller
W. §. Doty
Rosemary Sweeny
Locarno
Doty
Russia Posts Unemployment Total Near Five Hundred Thousand
Official figures from Moscow on August 28 place the unemployed in Soviet Russia at about 500000. The government notes many are itinerant workers and youths, mostly girls, with skilled labor shortages worsening. Port operations at Leningrad suffer from dock worker shortages as new industries plan 400000 hires to replace retiring or disabled workers.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Soviet Russia
Eningrad
Extortion Plot of Boy 17 Bared in Chicago
Chicago police revealed an extortion scheme by 17 year old Benjamin Markowitz who worked as a florist's messenger. He mailed letters to six women demanding sums often $000 and instructed them to place money in a package over a fence. He was nabbed while picking up a decoy package. He threatened death in the letters.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Benjamin Markowitz
Markowitz
Texas and Pacific proposes 333 mile Panhandle rail link
The Texas and Pacific filed plans for a new line with northern terminus at Vega Oldham County. The route would extend from Dim mitt to Amarillo and from southeastern Terry County to Lubbock totaling 333 miles with five Santa Fe intersections in 13 counties. Local chambers welcome the project as regional wheat production may rise. J A Somerville VP outlined the plan at Lamesa meetings with Big Spring business leaders.
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Dallas
Vega
Oldham County
Dimmitt
Amarillo
Terry County
Lubbock
Texas and Pacific
Santa Fe
Fort Worth
Denver
Rock Island
Chamber of Commerce
Lamesa
J. A. Somerville
Big Spring
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Russia
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Plough, Inc
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Tenn
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Kellogg
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W.B. Cadillac
Chevrolet
Chrysler
Ford
Hudson
W.B
W.B. LaSalle
Lincoln
Nash
Packard
Pierce-Arrow
Studebaker
Chester H. Watson, Inc
West 8Th Ave
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