New Trial Granted in Bexar County Murder Case
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ordered a new trial for Adam Bazan who was sentenced to death for the 1923 murder of Antonio Garcia in Bexar County. Bazan claimed new evidence and said a woman harassed him. he led officers to the buried body near San Antonio.
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Associated Press
Austin
Adam Bazan
Bexar County
Antonio G. Garcia
Court of Criminal Appeals
Bazan
San Antonio
Texarkana
Corporation Court
Justice of the Peace
Vernie Norton
Mrs Lindbergh Sees Her First Earthquake in Angora
Mrs Evangeline Lindbergh mother of the trans Atlantic flyer felt a violent quake with a subterranean roar during a reception at the American embassy in Angora no damage to life or property reported. She has been teaching chemistry at the American college.
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Associated Press
Constantinople
Evangeline Lindbergh
Angora
Order Two-Seated Racing Cars Back In Indy 500
New York dated Jan 10 reports the American Automobile Association contest board restored the two man car to the Indy 500 lineup effective 1930. The twin seat racer will replace the single seater, ending eight years of size reduction and reviving a more colorful era in American racing at Indianapolis.
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Associated Press
New York
Indianapolis
American Automobile Association
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Brothers Held for Murder of Witness
Lawrence and Roy Wilson brothers are jailed in Wichita Falls with 7500 bond each on conspiracy to obstruct justice by killing a government witness in Arkansas in 1920. They admitted their identity and waived formalities in removal proceedings. The pair were sought for the death of James Cary a government prohibition agent fatally shot after arresting bootleggers at Hot Springs National Park.
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Associated Press
Wichita Falls
Tex
Lawrence
Roy Wilson
Arkansas
Paducah
Wilsons
James Cary
Hot Springs National Park
Superphosphate boosts beet yields up to seven tons per acre
Fertilizer providing 80 pounds of phosphoric acid per acre increased sugar beet yields by as much as 7 tons per acre in tested fields. The finding highlights the crop response to targeted phosphorus nutrition and may influence farming recommendations.
The Shop-Worn Angel At The Fair and More At Theaters
The Fair presents The Shop-Worn Angel starring Gary Cooper. The Mission shows My Man with Fannie Brice. Vitaphone vaudeville adds acts. The Deandi screens The Gate Crasher with Glenn Tryon. Marty Young and His Youngsters perform as well.
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Angel
Gary Cooper
Man
Fannie Brice
Vitaphone Vaudeville
Deandi
Glenn Tryon
Marty Young
Search of Croatian opposition homes in Zagreb sparks crackdown
The Associated Press reports in Vienna that authorities searched the homes of Croatian opposition leaders Pernar and Pavlitch and other activists in Zagreb for suspicious documents amid a political deadlock after King Alexander’s dictatorship. Belgrade troops seized newspapers and censorship tightened on letters. dancing and carnival celebrations were banned nationwide.
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Associated Press
Vienna
Jan
Zagreb
Jugo-Slavia
Belgrade
Alexander
Pernar
Pavlitch
Jugoslav Peasant Party
Croatian National Party
Vienna Stride
Supreme court upholds term perjury in false swearing news report
The Texas supreme court ruled that using the word perjury for false swearing is a substantially truthful news report rendering in a lawsuit against Times Publishing Co appealed from Eastland County.
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Austin
Texas
Supreme Court
The
Times Publishing Company
Eastland County
Forest tableau artist to serve prison term for assault
David Ackerman a 41 year old landscape gardener was sentenced to 25 years for staging a forest tableau that tied Mrs Margaret Smith to a tree as inspiration for his painting The Captive She testified he offered to pose for him and was led to a woods where he bought a hand axe to use as color He tied her to a tree danced around and threatened to kill her if she did not submit witnesses said the act was part of the artist's scene Ackerman claimed it was all part of the picture
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Dy United Preas
Waukegan
David Ackerman
Margaret Smith
Ackerman
Mexia Boy Gun Victim Near Death After Rifle Accident
Roger Black, 18, lies in a Mexia Texas hospital near death from a Tuesday accident when a companion tossed a .22 rifle into a wagon he rode in. The rifle exploded and the bullet lodged in his spinal canal. A parasite related to the vine gar eel was found to live weeks in formalin or bichloride or mercury.
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Mexia
United S’ress
Tex
Roger Black
Black
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Aspironal Laboratories
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Georgia
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Reo Flying Cloud
REO Motor Car Company
Lansing, Mich
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Ballew-Satterfield CO
Polk St
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H. Shearer
Perryton
Dyche Motor Co
Dalhart
Robinson Motor Co
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Wellington
Hill Motor Co
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Cudd-Dennis Motor Co
Memphis
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