Dallas Police Break Up $20,000 Horse Racket
Dallas reporters say Police Chief Claude Trammell led a drive that shattered a high stakes horse betting ring. Bets from multiple Texas cities were routed through a city center with telegraph and telephone links to bookies. The racketeering yield reportedly dropped from 25,000 to 5,000 daily as officers cracked down.
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Contractors of Houston reject lower pay cut
The Associated General Contractors of Houston refuse the $1 per day wage cut proposed by five building crafts. They stand by the $2 per day cut initially demanded, effective May 1, while the crafts will not accept less than the $1 daily reduction. Don Hall, a local contractor, resumed work after accepting the $1 cut as 250 workers returned to three active sites after 19 idle days.
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Negro Shot At Boston Hat Shop Quarrel Leads To Jail
Erwin Wilkerson, a Black man, fired shots at Dan Cobb after a quarrel over a bet. Cobb was not injured. Wilkerson was transferred by police to the county jail following the incident at 419 Polk Street.
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Dan Cobb
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Polk Street
Goose Hangs High Class Play Hitting Friday Night
Final touches are being made on the senior class play The Goose Hangs High to be staged Friday at 8 p m in the high school auditorium. Three actors are shown preparing for the performance with Jean Epperson among them.
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Jean Epperson
Ingals Family Drama Casts Hugh and Younger Son Roles
Eunice Ingals is mother while Raymond Glass plays Hugh Ingals and Tom Lumpkin-Flover portrays the younger son in a staged drama. Tickets priced 35 and 50 cents are on sale. Judge Henry 8, Bishop and jury outline punishment limits up to the elder daughter turning twenty one. Prosecutors praise jury panels for two weeks.
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Raymond Glass
Hugh Ingals
Tom Lumpkin
Henry
Bishop
Negro Girl Guilty of Murder in Potter County
Luvenis W Pursley a 17 year old Negro girl was found guilty of the murder of Herbert Smith in Potter County Criminal District Court. The jury sentenced her to two years in the state training school for girls at Gainesville. The fatal stabbing occurred after an altercation in a barber shop in the Negro section. she was declared a juvenile.
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Luvenis W Pursley
Herbert Smith
Potter County
State Training School
Gainesville
District Court Sets Record in Convictions
Potter County Criminal District Court concluded a week and a half with ten convictions in eleven trials. Grady W. Hazlewood notes the term merged with exceptional dispatch and jurors deliberated quickly, none lasting over fifteen minutes.
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Potter County Criminal District Court
Grady W. Hazlewood
State District Court
Rock Island Seeks Short Term Financing Support
The Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad said to the Interstate Commerce Commission that ongoing business depression requires extra funds for general expenses. It asks permission to pledge 15,037,000 in bonds as security for short term notes, on top of 2,500,000 currently outstanding, with further loans likely before August 1.
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Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Today
Interstate Commerce Commission
Potter County Grand Jury Returns Indictments
The Potter County grand jury returned three felony and one misdemeanor indictments late yesterday and recessed until next Tuesday. The bills bring the term total to about 33 charges.
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