Highway bids opened in nine counties by road group
The highway commission after awarding 694 552 in contracts yesterday reopened December bidding in nine counties. Projects listed include Scurry Mitchell Matagorda Medina Live Oak Walker Waller Goliad and Jones counties with graded drainage roads concrete pavements bridges and earth approaches across various highways.
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Associated Press
Austin
Highway Commission
Scurry
Mitchell Counties
Matagorda County
Medina County
Live Oak County
Walker County
Waller County
Goliad County
Manahuila Creek
Jones County
Clear Fork
Brazos River
Laredo Mexican Officials Rebuff Birthday Celebration Ties
Nuevo Laredo officials refused participation in Laredo’s Washington’s Birthday events. Calles thanked the crowd during a brief stop as a Mexican diplomatic dispute with District Attorney Valls flared over investigations into the Blanco and Martinez killings. A Mexican consulate clash lingered, with travel and imports affected by the diplomatic standoff and threats to close the consulate.
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Nuevo Laredo
Laredo
Calles
Mexico City
Lucio Blanco
Aurelio Martinez
Rio Grande
New York
Valis
Mancha Macias
Valls
Macias
Washington
Walls
State Department
Alvaro Obregon
Blanco
Martinez
Mexico closes Laredo consulate amid border dispute
Mexico announced the closing of its consulate in Laredo and rescinded tourist card issuance, retaliating against District Attorney John Valle over his stance toward ex president Plutarco Elias Calles. The move shifts entry approvals to other ports and could affect commerce and tourism, including a 10 percent ad valorem tax collected by consuls.
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Associated Press
Mexico City
Laredo
Texas
John Valle
Plutarco Elias Calles
Foreign Office
Department of Interior
Mexico
Corpus Christi
San Antonio
Houston
Woodruff Heads to Whitewright Visit From Texas Plains
C M Woodruff of the Texas Plains Building and Losa Association will depart Saturday for his old home Whitewright Texas for a visit. J R Lawrence and family will leave Monday for a town weeks visit in Wichita Falls.
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C. M. Woodruff
The
Texas Plains Building and
Losa Association
Whitewright
Texas
J. R. Lawrence
Wichita Falls
Back in the Harness and Christmas Promises
The columnist resumes after a vacation promising a major secret project, likely a Christmas gift from publishers, with proceeds aiding the Children’s Home. He pledges return after year’s start, notes unusually damp, stormy Panhandle weather, and shares anecdotes about stock market jokes, a found $13 in Amarillo National Bank for Christmas children, and local notices seeking ranch help with cook and sturdy labor.
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Amarillo National Bank
J. D. Yakley
North Grant Street
Yakley
North
Grant Street
Barnes Criticizes Farm Board Policy in Grain Trade Claim
Barnes defends grain commission men against Farm Board statements. He, a former U S Grain Commission chair and Hoover ally, argues the policy endangers Western grain business and would threaten any industry. He cites meetings with Wells Goodall McMillan Carey of Minneapolis and Crowell of Kansas.
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Leggee
Senate
Barnes
Grain Commission
CU. S. Grain Commission
Hoover
Farm Board
Messrs. Wells, Goodall, McMillan and Carey
Minneapolis
Crowell
Kansas
Collier's Wins New Skirmish in Libel Suit
United Press reports in Houston that Collier's Weekly won a procedural victory over Texas Republican National Committeeman R B Creager. Judge Hutcheson sustained a motion to quasi service on F C Spalding of Houston, aiming to remove the parent company as defendant and leave P F Collier & Son Distributing Co. as sole defendant in the $1,000,000 libel suit arising from two June articles.
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United Press
Houston
Collier's Weekly Today
R. B. Creager
Texas
Republican National
Collier
Creager
P. F. Collier & Son Distributing Corporation
Hutcheson
Dallas
Ozark Trial Opens Over Frankenstein Type Case
In a muddy Arkansas courtroom, four defendants plead not guilty as jurors begin a tense Ozark melodrama. A man claiming to be Connie Franklin sits guarded to prove he is not the burned corpse, while Mrs. Lille Baker identifies him as her son Marion Franklin Rogers. State witnesses are lined up to confirm the bones belong to a white man and the prosecution hopes a jury forms by noon.
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Connie Franklin
Franklin
Stone County
Co. S. Zinn
J. M. Lee
Thomas Fox
Tom Copeland
Floyd Ramsey
T. E. Ward
L. E. Stewart
H. W. Branscomb
Rex Barnes
Hugh Williamson
Benny Williamson
C. W. Garrison
Arkansas Board of Health
Tiller Ruminer
Williamson
Amarillo High to award two wrist watches to top students
Announcement at the Amarillo High School assembly outlined rules for awarding two wrist watches to the best boy and girl students. The High School PTA funds the prizes through the scholarship committee. Grading emphasizes scholarship leadership character service and citizenship with 60 percent from scholarship. A faculty committee will judge. Dances by Mrs Dana Harmon Trent students closed the program.
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Amarillo High School
Parent-Teacher Association
Dana Harmon Trent
Seek Father and Son For Slaying Trial
Llano Texas December 17 fire. With bondsmen offering two hundred dollar reward officers search for D K Ellison and B F Ellison father and son charged with slaying Llano plumber L C Callaway September 17. Elder Ellison failed to appear for trial bond forefeited. The son a five year sentence in connection with the shooting, placed on appeal bond.
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Associated Press
Llano
Tex
D. K
B. F. Ellison
L. C. Callaway
Ellison
City before Leggee in a conference December form
Barnes quoted Legge as stating no intention to drive grain merchants out of business and that the board would not oppose private business. Legge allegedly told grain men the commission should not fear cooperative buying associations using government funds at cheaper rates than they can obtain.
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Leggee
Barnes
Legge
Commission
Big parliamentary cop George Fulcher retires after 294 pounds
United Press reports in London that George Fulcher, a 294 pound House of Commons police veteran of 20 years, retires. The popular sentinel known for quelling clashes and knowing MPs is described as a fixture in Westminster with two miles of corridors and a Grand Central like atmosphere. He reportedly now weighs about 280 pounds after leaving the palace duties.
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United Press
London
House of Commons
George Fulcher
Palace of Westminister
Fulcher
British Empire
Australia
M. P
Grand Central
Westminister Palace
Courts Move Slowly With Holidays Near
Criminal district court juries were dismissed for the week and Judge Henry S Bishop's court is at a standstill. No cases were tried in the early session and the court is expected to be idle until after the holidays. The civil district court handled only non jury cases after postponement of the trial against the city for alleged damage to lands from Amarillo Creek overflow. The grand jury met this morning after a recess and will likely be in session for the next few days.
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Criminal District Court
Henry S. Bishop
Civil District Court
Amarillo Creek
Visitors to City Praise Decorations
A bus trip through Amarillo yields high praise for the city Christmas decorations. Mr and Mrs Geo Gibson of Detroit gửi a postcard to Veterans of Foreign Wars commending Amarillo as the most beautiful stop seen on their bus journey, noting their son is a veteran from Jackson Michigan.
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Amarillo
Jackson
Mich
Geo. Gibson
Detroit
Indians Make Up Over Half of Dutch Guiana Population
The population of Dutch Guiana is largely composed of native Indians, who surpass other groups in numbers, reflecting the region's ethnic composition and cultural landscape.
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Dutch Guiana
Woman sought for home position at Matador Land Co
Mrs Mazie G Myers of Matador Land and Cattle Co at Channing Texas asks readers to find a middle aged woman to join their home as a companion helper. The job pays 30 dollars monthly with room and board and offers daily mail and reading time.
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Mrs
Mazie G. Myers
Matador Land & Cattle Co
Channing, Texas
Atlantic
Aee
Houster
Louisiana
Steee
Mexican Seaboard
Middle States
Royal Dutch
Sinclair
Simms
Shell Union
Skelly
Standard
Cal. Oy
N. J
Superior
Ceess
Texas Pac Land & Trusts
Texas Pacific C. & O. Cresee API Texas Corp
Tidewater
Union Oil of Tee
White Eagle
Phillips Ae
Wee
Pan American B
Producers & Ref
Prairie Oil Gas
Prairie Pipeline Ae
Ky Pure Veweeee We
Pierce Pet .Sreeese
Thinking is better than fighting in prison and life
A column discusses diverse paths to success from a 21 year old deacon in New York to Shakespeare and Hearst. It contrasts sticking to a single method with revolts in Auburn prisons and a Oklahoma penitentiary escape plot where five inmates tunneled under a wall to gain freedom. It argues brainwork over force.
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St. John the Divine
New York
W. R. Hearst
Evening Journal
Deacon
Auburn
United States
Oklahoma
Panic charge storm hits cotton exchanges in Senate panel
The speaker accuses New York planners of aiming a panic within Hoover era policies and credits the federal reserve. He warns that only action from the committee can stop it, noting the sub committee has heard pro cotton exchange witnesses and will hear opponents after the Christmas recess.
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New York
Federal Reserve Banking System
Alabama
State officials to probe refinery tax evasion in Texas
Attorney General R. L. Bobbitt Assistant Attorney General R. M. Tilley and Comptroller S. H. Terrell will travel to San Antonio tomorrow to begin an investigation of reported refinery and distributor activity aimed at evading the gasoline tax.
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Associated Press
Austin
R. L. Bobbitt
R. M. Tilley
H. Terrell
San Antonio
Oil production continues to show decline nationwide
The Oil and Gas Journal reports a week ending December 14 saw U S daily oil output fall by 7 191 barrels to 2 617 287 with light crude down 6 501 barrels daily The Oklahoma City Seminole areas dropped while St Louis Pearson and northern fields gained slightly West Texas slumped with Yates an exception California lost about 6 000 barrels
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Associated Press
Tulsa
Okla
United States
Oil and Gas Journal
Oklahoma
Seminole
Oklahoma City
St. Louis-Pearson
West Texas
Yates
Mid- Continent
Gulf Coast
Rocky Mountain
California
New York
Dee
U. S. Steel
Bethlehem
Westinghouse Ptectic
Missouri
Kansas
Texas
New Haven
American
Warner Brothers
Radio
International Telephone
American Telephone
Anaconda
Union Carbide
St. Louis
San Francisco
Northern Pacific
Baltimore & Ohio
Paramount
Fox Film A
A. M. Byers
Bendix
Standard Gas
American and
U. S. Industrial Alcohol
Simmons and Standard of
N. J. Sterling
Self-inflicted shot at Reynosa saloon ends life of Orville Lowry
Despondent since his brother Col. R C Lowry died in a Mexico airplane crash, Orville W Lowry shot himself in a Reynosa barroom near McAllen. He arrived in McAllen as a Temple aircraft firm representative planning a Dallas-based factory. He was a former Delta Irrigation News editor and World War veteran. He leaves a widow, his parents, and aDallas-based brother.
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Associated Press
Mission
Tex
Col
R. C. Lowry
Mexico
Orville W. Lowry
Reynosa
McAllen
Lowry
Temple
Delta Irrigation News
Dallas
Man Hunt For Burke In Bank Robbery Slaying
National sweep fails to arrest Frederick Burke alias Frederick Dane, wanted for a bank robbery and the fatal shooting of patrolman Charles Skelly in St. Joseph Michigan after a traffic incident. Skelly died after pursuing the suspect Saturday night.
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Associated Press
ST. Joseph, Mich
Frederick Burke
Frederick Dane
Charles Skelly
St. Joseph
Markets in Kansas City and Across the Midwest
Kansas City markets report cattle calf and sheep runs with slow to strong bids. Chicago hog and cattle prices rise with steady to higher tone. Fort Worth and St. Louis stockyards list hogs, cattle, calves, and sheep with mixed gains. Cotton markets in New York and New Orleans show steady openings and modest advances in December.
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Chicago
Associated Press
Fort Worth
ST. Louis
East ST. Louis
Letters From Home and Market Notes Collide In December News
A sentimental piece about baby letters and keepsakes contrasts with financial notes on January liquidation, cotton and produce prices, and a New York stock letter. It blends personal reflections on correspondence with market movements, including cotton futures, butter and eggs, poultry prices, and shifts in steel and tech stocks.
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Panhandle
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D. D. Davis
Collier’s
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Shakespeare
Raleigh
Capital
King Winter
Capitol
Mex
Burke
Kansas City
New Orleans
Stiol
Edgar A. Guest
Liverpool
Jno
F. Clark & Co
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Allis Chambers
Allied Chemical Dye - 265
Allegheny Corporation
Amerado Corporation
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Ceeneee Tae
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Sory American Sugar Refiners
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American Steel Foundry
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Armour of Illinois, Asscsees
American Tel & Teleormitt
American Tobacco
Associated
Atchison, Topeka & S F. Evees
Baldwin Locomotive
Bethlehem Steel
Y Best & Co
Bendix Aviation
Magneto
Brigg
Brunswick
Balicesnder Bucyrus-Pine Company
Burroughs
California Packing Co
Calumet & Hecla
Calumet & Arizona Canadian Pacific
Canada Dry
Central Alloy Stee
Erro de Pasco Copper
Lotexmpany
Chesape & Hio
Chesapeake Corp
Chic, I & Pacific
Chicago & Northwestern
I Commercial Credit
Chic, Mil & St P
Chrysler
Columbia Gas
Tig
Columbia Graph Co
Colorado Fuel & Gas
Columbian Carbon Co
Reel
Commonwealth, South
Corn P. Ucts
Continental Motors
Curtiss Wright Aero
Davidson
Dupont
Banoun Kodak
Alg Ryly General Ry Signal
Fidelity Eee
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Gillette Cee
Glidden
Goodyear
Goodrich Oe
Eeenneesenses
Graham Paige O
Great Western KR
Great West Sugar
Grigsby Greenow
Hudson Pesetene
Hupp Motors
Inspiration
Olyais International Hertvester
International Tel & Tele
Tb My Tas International
Julius Theeeeene
Cu Kaper
Southern
Kelly Springfield
Kelvinator
Tenes
Kennecott Copper Gat Gas
Kolster Radio
Kreuger & Toll
Taore Wiles
A Lorillard
Louisville
Lambert & 53
Lowe's Ihe
Mack Truck
Matheison Micalian Loft, Inc
Missouri Pacific
Montgomery Ward
Nash Motors
National Cash Register
National Dairy Products
Northern Pacific National Power & Light
Norfolk & Western
Sears MC
Senecca Copper
Shulte
Sesecese
Southern Pacific
Southern Railroad
Stand Com Tobacco
Studebaker
Teres Weewe
Stand Gas & Elec
St. Joseph Lead
Stewart Warner
Cove
Simmons Company
Timken Roller
Tbs
National Miami Co
Aeee Anes
Pereee Standard Brandes “Co
Southern Cath Sewer Universal Pipeline
F. Clark Co
Arkansas Gas
Maracaibo
Marconi
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Fokker
Ford
England
France
Victor
Dial
Polk
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