Texas House Bills Move to Declare Gas Pipelines Public Utilities
Texas legislators introduced bills to classify gas pipelines as public utilities and require proration among producers and transporters. The measures aim to let the Railroad Commission manage withdrawals, set fair gas prices, and force producers to align with market demand. Another proposal gives companies a year to choose between production or transportation lines.
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Austin
House of the
Texas
H. K. Stanfield
Amarillo
Panhandle
House Committee On Oil, Gas and Mining
Roosevelt Says Itemizing $4 Billion Works Program Impossible
President Roosevelt told Congress that itemizing the $4,000,000,000 work relief fund is not feasible during the current unemployment emergency. He transmitted reports from the Nation Resources Board and the Mississippi Valley Committee praising the documents as a basis for orderly national development. The President urged delaying fixed administrative machinery and suggested about 500 million dollars yearly after the crisis abates for orderly project development, while the measure also includes 880 million for direct relief.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
White House
Nation Resources Board
Mississippi Valley Committee
The
Public Works Administration
Hauptmann Denies Lindbergh Kidnapping Ties In Trial
In Flemington New Jersey Bruno Richard Hauptmann testified denying any link to the Lindbergh baby kidnapping or ransom. The state's murder case rests on wood expert Koehler who testified a ladder rail came from Hauptmann attic and lumber from a Bronx yard.
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Flemington
N. J
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Supreme Court
Thomas W. Trenchard
Hauptmann
Christian Friedrichsen
WN. J
Arthur Koehler
Hauptman
Bronx
Koehler
David T. Wilentz
Edward J. Reilly
Wilentz
Reilly
Thomas H. Sisk
Department of Justice
Hildegarde Olga Alexander
John F
Jassie) Condon
Trenchard
Miss Alexander
Sisk
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr
Ickes Deflects Responsibility Over Piping Hot Article
Secretary Harold Ickes disclaims responsibility for the Piping Hot article in Collier's Weekly. In a letter to the Texas Senate he urges readers to address the author, denies endorsing the piece, and notes Texas failed to enforce production laws and that the state could control its oil situation.
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Austin
U.P
Harold Ickes
Collier's Weekly
Senate of Texas Today
State Senate of Texas
Ickes
Owen P. White
Texas
White
John N. Garner
House of Representatives
Girl to Aid of Doomed Youth in Texas Execution
An 18 year old Lewisville high school girl, lover of Laroy Lane awaiting execution at midnight, gives a grand jury statement claiming involvement in the deputy sheriff killing of September 8, 1934. She says she and Lane planned to marry but denies motive was to save him, asserts Lane died for a crime he didn’t commit.
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Dallas
Lewisville
Laroy Lane
Texas
Lane
Laroy
Grand
Cecil Chapman
Larey
Eugene
Letot
Steve Lane
Hearing Opens for Kennamer in Tulsa Venue Fight
Defense for Phil Kennamer, son of a federal judge charged with murder, seeks a venue change to Pawnee County. Judge Hurst orders focus on fair trial prospects as witnesses describe alleged bias and possible bribery in Tulsa County.
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Tulsa
Oka
Jam
Phil Kennamer
John F. Gorrell
Holly Anderson
Pawnee County
A. Flint Moss
Anderson
Tulsa Daily World
Floyd J. Huff
Kansas City
Thurman Hurst
Moss
Pawnee
Col. O. W. Hoop
Henry W. Maddux
Allred Flies Back as Brother Improves in Texas
Gov. James V. Allred flew to Tyler to be with his seriously ill brother Renne Allred Jr. at the bedside. The former district judge showed improvement, and the governor returned to Austin by plane shortly after eight this morning.
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Tyler
U.P
James V. Allred
Austin
Renne Allred, Jr
Renne Allred
Trawler Jenna Believed Sunk Off Iceland Coast
Grimstead reporting that the trawler Jenna with 14 aboard drifted in a violent gale off Iceland and was believed to have gone down today.
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Grimsby
England
Iceland
Jenna
Assassination of German Exile in Prague Hotel
Rudolf Wormis a German emigre and former chief technician of Stuttgart radio station was shot and killed in his Prague hotel room at midnight. Police said the assassins were Germans arriving by car from Germany and registered as Kurt Schubert Hans Mueller and Edith Karlsbach.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Rudolf Wormis
Stuttgart
Germany
Kurt Schubert
Hans Mueller
Edith Karlsbach
Upward Swing in Real Estate Told at Meet
At a Houston mid winter convention Hugh Potter of the National Association of Real Estate Boards said the nations real estate market has passed its peak and moves toward normal times. Mortgage money is returning with banks and insurers lending again while private investors remain a major source. Rents are expected to rise and construction costs stay steady. Residential vacancies are being absorbed.
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Houston
U.P
Hugh Potter
National Association of Real Estate Boards
Potter
The
Associ
New England
Middle Atlantic
North Central
Pacific
Will Rogers Watches JA Ranch Plans Amid Negotiation Rumors
Will Rogers arrived at English Field for lunch and a westbound flight home while denying talks to buy the 425000 acre JA Ranch in Donley County. He toured the ranch with Ewing Halsell and JA administrators, joked about beans, and pledged future help for Crippled Children’s Council before starting a new movie next week.
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Donley County
Will Rogers
English Field
California
Ewing Halsell
Muleshoe
Fred Hobart
Pampa
Austin
Halsell
Hobart
Ewing
Will
Crippled Children's Council
Storm Breaks: Near 100 Dead Across Nation
Weather toll climbs with almost 100 deaths as floods and blizzards strike the South and East. Relief forecast for the Midwest as northern plains rise from record lows and New York, Boston, Philadelphia report heavy snow and outages.
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Associated Press
South
Midwest
Chinese Japan clash widens over Nanking
Chinese National government says Chahar dispute settled. Peiping reports near Cha har borders say Japanese and Manchoukuan troops penetrated into Chahar. Japanese planes reportedly bombing in Jehol Chihan region per Rengo dispatches.
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Nanking
Chahar
Peiping
Chahar Province
Manchoukuo
Associated Press
Tokyo
Tie Associated Press
Hsinking
Rengo
Jehol-Chahan
Weather forecast for Amarillo and nearby areas
Fair and warmer tonight and Friday across West Texas and eastern portions. New Mexico expects fair conditions tonight and Friday with higher temperatures in the east. Record temperature extremes noted as up to 24 and 38 degrees with unrelated pricing data appended.
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H. T. Collman
Amarillo
Texas
New Mexico
Cold Weather Debates Old Age Pensions and Plan Costs
The column cites Arthur Brisbane discussing cold weather comments from Dodge City Kansas and U P about old age pensions. It weighs President plans and Townsend ideas with billions in annual costs and potential government waste. In Texas G W Hardin, 55, died in a house fire near Teneryville caused by a leaking gas line.
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Dodge City
Kan
Gallup
N. M
Longview
Tex
U.P
G. W. Hardin
Teneryville
Here
Hardin
Testifies as Aid 10 Father in Sickles Murder Trial
Ida Belle Sickles testifies for the defense in the W L Sickles murder trial as the state rests. She describes Wright as aggressor, saying he reached for a monkey wrench and Sickles struck him with a cane then retrieved a pistol. Neighbor B Ramey called a doctor. other defense witnesses include J G Wadsworth and T B Ramey.
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Panhandle
Ida Belle Sickles
W. L. Sickles
Sickles
W. E. Wright
City Meter Reader
Wright
Miss Sickles
B. Ramey
J. G. Wadsworth
T. B. Ramey
Pecos Jurist Dies in Auto Heart Attack
Judge Ben Randall a noted West Texas jurist cattleman and Reeves County relief administrator died of heart failure at the wheel near Kent Texas. His car left the road and he was found in a ditch. funeral services were pending. Survived by daughter Hettie Lois Randall Gals.
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Pecos
Ben Randall
West Texas
Reeves County
Kent
Texas
Here
Randall
Nineteenth Court
Pecos Division
Western District of Texas
Hettie Lois Ran Gals
University of Texas
Oil price listed by H. A. Loans Long Bell Lumber Co
Advertisement notes guaranteed oil at 10 cents per quart from H. A. Loans Long Bell Lumber Co located near 1900 West 3rd Street unknown exact date. The compact price listing suggests a local hardware or lumber firm offering petroleum products.
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H. A. Loans
Long-Bell Lbr. Co
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