Taxpayers to Get Relief in Solon Bills
Texas fourth special session ends with measures to aid delinquent taxpayers and set a new permanent tax plan. The legislature sent centennial support, relief funds, and river development bills to Governor Ferguson for signature. Archie Parr honored as president pro tempore after long service.
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Austin
Brazos
Colorado
Miriam A. .Ferguson
James. E. Ferguson
Lower
Colorado River Valley Authority
Buchanan Dam
Ferguson
Counies
Razos River
Archie Parr
Weaver Moore
Houston
Sarah Hughes
Dallas
Senate
Benavides
Appeals Court Proceedings in Amarillo Docket Sessions
Proceedings listed for the Court of Civil Appeals Seventh District in Amarillo include rehearings and motions from November 10 1934 to January 21 1935. Cases span Associated Indemnity Corp Annie Baker etc and Texas Employers Insurance Association N B Horn to issue mandates, with several motions granted overruled or postponed and multiple cases set for submission January 21 1935 including Firemen's Insurance Co vs Akers Great Southern Life Insurance Co vs Williams and Traders Compress Co vs State of Texas.
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Court of Civil Appeals
Seventh District
Amarillo
Associated Indemnity Corp
Annie Baker
Arthur B. Kreis
Lizzie Kreis
J. B. Gallaher
Fidelity & Guaranty Co
A. Perky
Lorayne Miller
G. E. Fletcher
le King
W. C
Shaw
Roy L. Main
Soo F
Pletcher
L. L. King
City of
Swift Gin Company
J. Fe, Robinson
Kent
Flowers
FE. Smith
Foard
H. Durham
J. W. Simpson
Rom Lynn
F. Williams
A. M. Kelley
Deaf Smith
Traders Compress Company
State of Texas
Collingsworth
Firemen's Insurance Co
C. B. ‘Akers
Grey
Great Southern Life Insurance Co
J. L. Williams
Sherman
Mabel. Smith
Allie Pegram
Armstrong
Temple Trust Co
W. W. F Royalty
Lubbock
Tom Niciffer
Citizens Insurance Company
Wheeler
Panhanhadle Compress & Warehouse Co
D. R. Badgett
Floyd
Repeal Fears Rise as Prohibition Era Shifts
Leading distillers favor continued regulation under PACA to avoid renewed monopoly fears. Anti liquor groups push for a new constitutional amendment to re enact national prohibition, protection for dry states, and anti false advertising laws as Congress weighs in. In Montana a cucumber cake 26 3 4 inches long is deemed the nation’s largest grown this year.
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PACA
Congress
Congresses
Montana
Havre
Mont
U.P
A. W. Slight
Slight
What They r Write To Tack What They r Write To Tack
Dear Tack asks for help finding a good man as she tires of living alone. The letter seeks guidance on companionship and relationship advice.
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Tack
Methodists To Stage Show Tuesday Night at Polk Street Church
The Vaughan Class hosts a church carnival in Fellow ship Hall with rides and refreshments next Tuesday night. Gates open at 6 20 and tickets cost one to ten cents inside. Features include Glen and Hatties Finishing School of Pine Arts and Music Beacon Quartet a negro choir liquid air and glass blowing demonstrations weight guessing and more attractions. Wilbur C Hawk will assist in the programs.
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Polk Street Methodist Church
Vaughan
Rope Trick Ends in Apparent Death Belief Turned Safe
Performers staged a rope illusion as the boy disappeared and a Hindu assailant slashed at the air above a curtain. An arm and a head appeared to fall, but the wax props and spotlight exposed the stunt. The boy reappeared unharmed as a final arm slid from a cloak.
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Heger
Higer
Magic Continues At Amarillo Christmas Tree Party
The segment describes topnotchers Biren and his troupe performing in Amarillo for a charitable Christmas party for local children. Audience members recall previous visits, with new tricks promised. Proceeds from two shows fund the event and a festive party. Admission ranges from 15 to 35 cents depending on the show.
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Amarillo
Biren
Bireh
Italy to require compulsory work for all Italians
Rome, Nov 12 Mussolini announced a new corporative state plan adding compulsory work for every able bodied Italian. The program targets the old aristocracy and aims to mobilize a leisure class while asserting equality before the state in work as a social duty.
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United Press
Rome
Council of Corporations
Chamber of Deputies
Benito Mussolini
Mussolini
Africa
Ex Florida Grid Star Killed in Robbery Incident
Carl Schuman 23 former Florida Gators guard was shot and killed in Jacksonville while his fiancee Rosa Browning tried to help. The couple sat in a store Schuman operated planning their upcoming wedding when a holdup man entered he wrestled with the assailant and Browning struck him with a bottle before the gunman fled.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Carl Schuman
University of Florida
Schuman
Miss Rosa Browning
Miss Browning
Cundy Sues Wife Over Habitual Card Playing
George B. Cundy filed for divorce in superior court after alleging his wife Janette has become an habitual card player, preferring cards to her duties as housewife and mother after more than 25 years of marriage.
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Seattle
U.P
George B. Cundy
Janette
Huey Long Seeks Presidency With Share-the-Wealth Plan
The Kingfish advocates a two year debt moratorium for Depression survivors and links it to his share-the-wealth doctrine. He says the moratorium will exclude debts under eight dollars while pursuing national leadership ambitions despite federal probes into income taxes and a $500000 libel suit.
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Long
Louisiana State University
Huey Long
Louisiana
White House
Samuel T. Ansell
Senate
Mid-Louisiana
Churchmen convene in Fort Worth for Central Texas Conference
At the seventy ninth annual Central Texas Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South in Fort Worth, twelve young preachers were ordained and appointments announced. Two aging ministers retired, Brownwood named as next meeting site, and increases approved for superannuates and widows' allowances.
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Fort Worth
Central Texas
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
C. M. Bishop
Southwestern University
M. C. Hays
Copperas Cove
Brownwood
W. B. Andrews
H. A. Boaz
Maverick Club Aims to Reform Amarillo Delinquent Boys
In Amarillo a judge sees a struggling family, then notes the need to help five brothers roped by poverty. The Maverick Club formed by Rotary in 1934 grew to 1456 members, cutting juvenile delinquency 75 percent in a year. The program offers boxing, tutoring, Sunday services, and outdoor activities at 317 Van Buren with support from Mrs. Lee Bivins and local leaders.
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Amarillo
State Reformatory
Maverick Club
Mavericks
Oklahoma City
van Buren
Lee Bivins
Mark Twain
Harold Wall
Farley
Dutch Mantell
Palo Duro CCC
Bill Adams
Blanche Spurlock
W. A. McIntosh
R. Thomsen
Revolt Leader Villareal Exiled to Texas and Beyond
El Paso sources say Antonio Villareal, who allegedly called an armed revolt in Mexico, has lived in exile in El Paso and is now believed in San Antonio. Mexican consul Enrique Gonzales dismisses the revolt as a bluff and admits uncertainty about Villareal’s whereabouts.
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EL Paso
U.P
Antonio Villareal
Mexico
San Antonio
Enrique A. Gonzales
el Peso
Mexican youth held in shooting of girl
Braulio Espipia, 22, is jailed in Potter County on an assault with intent to murder charge related to the shooting of his 19 year old sweetheart Grabie Lita Alcala last Friday. The bullet pierced her back near the lung. she rests at St. Anthony's Hospital in stable condition. Espipia said he went crazy with jealousy and that the shooting was accidental.
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Braulio Espipia
Potter County
Grabie Lita Alcala
St. Anthony's Hospital
Convicted Bank Receiver’s Son Pleads Guilty in 1930s Scandal
The bank receiver’s son, found hiding in a Wisconsin hovel, sobbed as he learned his mother died last May and his unborn daughter is ill. He plans to plead guilty in the court case, aided by his former life of deprivation and hunger while evading capture for two years.
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Ceiver
Schwall
Wisconsin North Woods
Robinson Crusoe
Waukegan
Will
Bond
Government weighs social insurance and full employment plan
The administration pushes social insurance including unemployment, old age, and health care to be permanent. A 19 member council aids the economic security committee. A NRA idea proposes the government backstop industry to run at full capacity, with the option to absorb excess production, potentially reemploying up to 5 million workers, though details remain unsettled.
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NRA
Trouble at Memorial Service Highlights Global Tensions
A memorial service at the Municipal Auditorium heard Dr. Knapp claim nations once near agreement, now widening differences. He warned of a growing belief in America that war is inevitable, with debt issues cited as a chief area of discord among nations.
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Dr. Knapp
Russia
Italy
Germany
America
Knapp
United States
American Legion
Burger
William D. Burger
Hanson Post
Bam Houston Junior High
5S. M. Pagwell
Lucky Girl Lucky Girl Medical ad promotes Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin
An old advertisement urges parents to use a liquid laxative to safely regulate dosage for sluggish or constipated children. It touts Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a natural, non habit forming remedy with senna and cascara, claiming it can be found in drug stores and costs sixty cents.
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Dr. Caldwell
Deaths and Misdemeanors Across Texas and Nearby Areas
A string of early 20th century fatal and injurious incidents reported near Garrison, Austin, Corsicana, Burkburnett, Dublin, and Greens Creek. H P Copeland a 40 year old Dayton farmer died after a crash. K O Winfrey of Austin injured when struck at his parked car. William McIlveny a Navarro County Black man killed and six others injured in a rollover south of Corsicana. A J McCarty an 18 year old saxophonist shot and killed at Burkburnett. Police Chief Bill Garland charged and later released on bond. Gordon Woolley wounded in the stomach. Garland says self defense. Jim Davis aged 56 of Dublin jailed for slaying Kinchen Sanders 59 of Greens Creek. witnesses report a bullet through Sanders back.
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A. J. McCarty
Burkburnett
Bill Garland
Garland
Gordon Woolley
McCarty
Jim Davis
Dublin
Kinchen Sanders
Greens Creek
Sanders
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Florida Grid Star
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Cal Farley
Chansler Weymouth
Roy Pool
Emmett Galloway
Harold Neville
Boys’ Work
Carl Hare
John Fain
W.W. W. Kelley
Jim Florey
Jess Rogers
Fred DeCoster
Boys’ Work of America
Texas
Villareal
Santone
Mr. Gonzales
Fl Paso
Madero Revolutionary Forces
Carraza
Monterrey
First National Bank
Obregon
Gomez-Serrano
Espipia
Chicago
Cyrus Raton
Cleveland
Eaton
Samuel Insull
Insull
James H. Wilkerson
Cleveland Utilities
Floyd E. Thompson
H. A. Shaw
J. T. McClure
F. My Kaminsky
Amarillo Catholic
Beacon Quartet
Budde
Floyd L. Sloan
Hansart Post
Strong
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Troy
Miles
Garrison
H. P. Copeland
Dayton
K. O. Winfrey
William McIlveny
Navarro County
Corsicana
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