Lubbock Firm Wins Low Bid for Amarillo Waterworks
Panhandle Construction Company of Lubbock was named contractor for enlarging Amarillo waterworks. Bid $177,923.95 with state approval pending. City Manager H R Smith endorsed the plan, urging local labor and materials where possible for a $186,000 loan. 250 jobs estimated over five months. Other bids listed from Mattison Wallack Oklahoma City W T Vedder Childress and Humpreys Lytle Omaha.
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Panhandle Construction Company
Lubbock
Amarillo
H. R. Smith
PWA
Fort Worth
Port Worth
Ross D. Rogers
Commission
Mattison-Wallack and Company
Oklahoma City
W. T. Vedder, Childress
Decisions Filed In L. P. Rail Strike
United States Board of Mediation decisions on Southern Pacific Railway labor complaints in Texas and Louisiana have been filed in federal court. Eighty three questions were debated. forty four favored the railroad and ninety two favored the workers. Five undecided due to changes in railway labor laws. The transcript spans 67 volumes and 8,768 pages.
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Houston
United States Board of Mediation
Southern Pacific Railway
Texas
Louisiana
Village Welcomes Two Great Heroes
Connie Mack and George M. Cohan returned to their boyhood scenes in North Brookfield Mass and were greeted by grateful locals. Mack, the lean gray patriarch of baseball, was born near East Brookfield, while Cohan spent happiest days in town during the Cohans summers.
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North Brookfield
Mass
Connie Mack
George M. Cohan
Mack
East Brookfield
Cohan
Four Cohans
Lampe Returns Home After South Plains Official Trip
Deputy U S Marshal Bill Lampe arrived home yesterday following a two day trip to Lubbock Littlefield and other South Plains towns where he conducted official business.
The Night of the Beer Cellar Putsch in Munich
Hitler and 50 followers seized Munich public buildings in 1923 in a failed attempt to march on Berlin. Ludendorff fled as troops restored order. Hitler was wounded, captured, and imprisoned for treason before release after one year with politics barred until 1928.
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Associated Press
Hitler
National Socialist Party
Germany
Munich
Erich Ludendorff
von Hindenburg
Ludendorff
Berlin
Mussolini
Rome
Curbing Texas Crime Is Need Says C E Smith
Clyde E Smith of Woodville running for attorney general spoke at an outdoor rally at Tenth Avenue and Polk Street about curbing the crime wave protecting legal rights and enforcing statutes. He cited his four-term district attorney record and outlined duties to curb crime correct civil injustices and prepare laws for the legislature. He spoke in Wichita Falls and Iowa Park and planned stops in Plainview and Lubbock tonight.
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Texas
Clyde E. Smith
Woodville
Tenth Avenue
Polk Street
Attorney General of
Smith
Prison camp ballpark escape as convict Dallas Brown flees
A prison camp baseball game in Raleigh sees inmate Dallas Brown sprint from the outfield after an errant fly ball. He outruns his pursuers as the ball lands and he keeps running, slipping away from custody.
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Raleigh
N. C
Dallas Brown
Dallas
Man Electrocuted Repairing Radio Aerial in Overton
Funeral services were held for Robert Jackson a 39 year old man killed when he fell across a high voltage wire while trying to repair a radio aerial. His body was not found until the day after the accident in Overton.
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Robert Jackson
Jackson
Park visitors to buy lunches at Palo Duro State Park
Maj. F. E. A. Kingsley, camp superintendent, said lunches will be sold at the park. Barbecued beef will be available at the canyon barbecue pit every Saturday, Sunday and holiday. Lundits may also be purchased at reasonable prices.
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Palo Duro State Park
Maj. FE. A. Kingsley
Century Texas Centennial publicity plan outlined at Corsicana
A Texas publicity conference adopted the slogan It s your state for the 1936 Texas Centennial. Lowry Martin chairs the committee urging Texans to feel responsible in preparing the state for the celebration as details of the event are to be revealed by the Centennial committee.
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Corsicana
Lowry Martin
Committee hears reports from Middleton and Hulen on national ad plan
John D. Middleton of Greenville chairs the planning group and Maj. Gen. John A. Hulen of Fort Worth heads the finance committee. Plans for a nationwide advertising campaign were completed using newspapers periodicals radio billboards direct mail and motion pictures. The Island of Haiti is occupied by the Republic of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
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Mittee
John D. Middleton
Greenville
John A. Hulen
Fort Worth
Martin
Woman Not Indicted in Houston Murder Case
Harris County grand jury declined to indict 22 year old Linna Besshurst of Houston in the fatal shooting of her stepfather Tom B Moore 44 after she claimed he threatened to kill her during a family dispute over property. The case now rests on no charges.
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Houston
Linna Besshurst
Tom B. Moore
Harris County
Hurat
Moore
Rover Division
Tax on Bath Tiba Recalled From Virginia History
A fragment notes a Sunday event at Mrs. Hursts home and mentions a past tax on bath tiba imposed by Virginia.
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Virginia
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