Texas Senate votes to cut judiciary salaries in bill
The Texas Senate supported the judiciary budget with district judges set at 4200 annually and supreme court justices reduced from 8000 to 6000. A Woodul amendment to fix district judge pay at 4500 failed 14 to 16 as lawmakers debated pension limits and utility rate rules amid other measures.
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Texas Senate
Walter Woodul
Houston
Supreme Court
Court of Criminal Appeals
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State Highway Commission
Miriam A. Ferguson
Denver police ponder withdrawal from Boettcher kidnap case
Police Chief A. T. Clark said he may pull officers from the Charles Boettcher I kidnaping probe to let Charles K. Boettcher conduct negotiations with abductors. The move could involve removing an officer stationed at the Boettcher home after the February 12 abduction of the 31 year old heir.
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Denver
A. T. Clark
Charles Boettcher
Charles K. Boettcher
Boettcher
To Riches
Chinese turn tables in Jehol as Japanese offensive stalls
Chinese reports claim a shift in Sino-Japanese hostilities in Jehol Province as the central Japanese drive toward Lingyuan Pass falters, with defenders at Paishintsuimen holding despite heavy artillery. Weather, including 30 degree below zero conditions, hampers Japanese operations and a lull follows in the 24 hour period.
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Peiping
Jehol
Peipiao
Chaoyang
Lingyuan Pass
Jehol City
Paishintsuimen
Chih-Feng
Boxing Loses in Fort Worth Amid Enforcement Crackdown
Fort Worth boxing faced a shutdown as the Law Enforcement League of the local ministerial alliance pressed to stop further bouts. Deputies ordered promoters to halt fifth exhibitions while past cards were left intact. A city wide rally planned March 12 aims to boost the campaign against gambling and liquor traffic.
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Law Enforcement League
Ministerial Alliance
Duke Trammell
Dick Griffith
Jim Chenault
Henry Lewis
Lewis
Henry Lee
Amarillo Area Weather Forecast Update
Forecast calls for fair skies and rising temperatures across Amarillo and West Texas tonight and Wednesday. Regions west of the 100th meridian will stay fair and warmer with extreme western portions warmer. New Mexico sees fair, warmer conditions with tonight’s low around 28 and highs near 56. oil price note included and address at 1900 W 3rd.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Mexico
Martial rule in Germany tightens under police regime
Berlin reports virtual martial law decided by the German cabinet to curb Communist threats. Goering outlined forged orders and poisoning plans tied to Karl Liebknecht House. Reichstag repairs to take a year as arrests of Communist Reichstagers continue.
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Wilhelm Goering
Reichstag
Karl Liebknecht
Buelowplatz
Herr Goering
Vorwaerts
Diet
Hitler
Reds
Fair and Warmer Weather Expected After Drought Relief
After a period of freezing temperatures and light rain and snow across the Panhandle Plains the weather warmed on Tuesday and moisture appeared to ease. Forecast calls for fair and warmer conditions with lingering relief from the drought after the weekend snow and rain provided some moisture.
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Panhandle Plains
Drouth
Roosevelt names Walsh as attorney general in new cabinet
Hyde Park report states Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana appointed to lead the Justice Department. Separate dispatches from Springfield and Detroit detail bombings at Peabody mines and the widening search for Ernest G. Liebold, Ford's secretary, who vanished after hours at the Ford offices. A neighbor recalls a speeding car leaving the Liebold residence around midnight as police pursue clues.
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N. Y
U.P
Roosevelt
Thomas J. Walsh
Montana
Springfield
U.R
Peabody
C. C. Drennan
Progressive Miners Union
Drennan
Detroit
Ernest G. Liebold
Henry Ford
Ford Motor Company
Siebold
Ford
Liebold
Service Department
Alfred L. Williams
Ford Company
Edsel Ford
Friends of Siebold
Lindbergh Kidnap Hunt Enters Second Year
One year after Charles Lindbergh Jr. was abducted from his crib investigators maintain an international manhunt. The $25,000 reward remains, with guards at the Lindbergh home and the family staying at the Morrow estate in Englewood while Colonel Lindbergh resumes aviation work.
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Trenton
N. J
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr
Sourland Hills
Hoover
Lindy
Lindbergh
Lindberghs
Morrow
Englewood
Smith urges expanded public works to spur business
Alfred E. Smith told the Senate Finance Committee that the country faces a warlike condition and called for enlarged public construction to boost employment. He urged cutting red tape to accelerate projects and cited public works as a remedy. He spoke in Washington on February 28.
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Washington
Alfred E. Smith
Senate Finance Committee
Mellon Named Defendant in Record $220 Million DC Suit
Former Treasury secretary Mellon and two ex Treasury associates are named in a $220 million civil suit in the District of Columbia Supreme Court. The suit, filed by David Olson, accuses officials of aiding unidentified foreign steamship lines to dodge income taxes and seeks double damages under an 1863 statute.
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Andrew W. Mellon
Treasury
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Mellon
Ambassadoro
Great Britain
Secretary of the Treasury
David H. Blair
Internal Revenue
Alexander W. Gregg
The
Revenue Bureau
David A. Olson
Senate Banking Committee
U. S
United States
Capital Bedecked For Demos Party Inauguration Prep
Washington hums with inauguration fever as Roosevelt prepares to take office. One hundred thousand tourists flood hotels and 250000 expected visitors, white pine stands lining streets, White House airy with crocuses. Grayson confirms parade seats priced 2 to 7 dollars and notes a free chair on Pennsylvania Avenue. Democrats move into capitol offices amid critiques of current furnishings and brass elephants.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Pennsylvania Avenue
Carey T. Grayson
Mr. Roosevelt
Grayson
Capitol
Bombs Rain on Tiny Town as Correspondent Watches
Chinese defenders report daily air and artillery strikes on Jehol highways around Cheng tefu Jehol City. From a dugout, Herbert R. Ekins describes bombs exploding on open ground, wounded peasants, and a Japanese air attack on refugee carts while Col. Fang Chin Chun vows resistance.
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United Press
Lingyuan
Chengtehfu
Jehol
Col
Fan Ching- Chun
Tang Yu-Lin
Ping- Fangtsi
Chingkou
Fang Chin Chun
Chang Hsueh-Liang
Embargo on Arms Sways Views as Japan Seethes Over China
Dispatches report Chinese front held firm from Kaila to Chaoyang while Japanese forces mop up remaining resistance. Britain imposes a new arms embargo, provoking Japanese resentment and fears of wider conflict as American citizens in Peiping and Tientsin face safety concerns.
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Jehol
Jehol City
Chentehfu
Kailu
Chihfeng
Lingyuan
Great Wall
Rio
Japan
Kaila
Paiplao
Chaoyang
Peiping
China
Washington
Tientsin
State Department
British arms embargo on Japan and China debated in Nanking
In Nanking the British arms embargo announcement drew mixed reactions. Chinese sympathize with Britain’s aim to curb conflict but fear the measure will not advance peace and may bolster Japanese military aggression according to Chinese circles.
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Nanking
China
Japan
Great Britain
Waterman Mine Reopens as Gold Rush Returns to California
Arthur Brisbane notes new activity near Hodge California where the Waterman gold mine is revived with improved methods. He cites past production of one million in gold and expects hundreds of other old mines to be worked, boosting prospecting and wealth as the government seeks funds for policy.
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Arthur Brisbane
America
Globe
Brisbane
Apportionment of Two Dollars Per Capita Planned for Texas Schools
State Superintendent L A Woods announced that $2 per student will be apportioned from the available school fund. County common schools will receive the first payments, with checks expected by the end of the week.
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Austin
L. A. Woods
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Woods
Tom Roan Acquitted in Slaying of Dr Hicks at Trial
Fort Payne Alabama February 28 Tom Roan fiction writer was acquitted after a two year battle for his freedom in the charge of slaying Dr W P Hicks The acquittal ends a long legal fight with Roan cleared of the murder accusation and freedom granted after the trial
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Fort Payne
Ala
Tom Roan
W. P. Hicks
Wichita crude price to rise 25 cents on Thursday
The Wichita Eagle reports an authoritative circle says a 25 cent hike in Mid-Continent crude oil prices will take effect Thursday across all grades. Top Kansas price now 52 cents per barrel, low 28 cents for 29 gravity and below, unchanged since January 28. Majors in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas behind the move. Dallas reports say East Texas crude price increase possibly Friday as majors push for a general lift.
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Wichita Eagle
Kansas
Dallas
U.P
East Texas
Dallas News
Pneumonia in Cermak’s Lung Remains Stationary
Miami bulletin reports Mayor Anton Cermak’s pneumonia area in the right lung stationary. He slept well after 3 A M with temperature 99.8 and pulse 126. Officials say an oxygen room may be sent by air to Miami for treatment.
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Miami
Anton d. Cermak
Frank Jirka
New York
Eastern Air Transport Company
Anton Cermak
Chicago
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