Grand Jury Urges County Audit And Reform In Fannin Texas
The grand jury for the January 1933 term recommends auditing all county departments back four years and hiring skilled auditors. They call for ending excessive suspended sentences and improving collection of fines and court costs to restore revenue. They note witness attendance issues due to weather and urge action by the commissioners court and public officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ias Avill Fae
Sixth Judicial District
District Court
Fannin County
Texas
Anay
Commissioners Court
Philip Wise
Foreman BF. Butts
T. Lane
Governor Ferguson to Send More Highway Fund Details
Governor Ferguson announced she will send additional detailed information to the senate tomorrow. She had charged in a Monday message that more than 1,000,000 dollars had been lost to the highway fund. The senate will reconvene as a committee of the whole to consider matters from the governor’s message.
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Austin
Ferguson
Senate
Colombians Drive Peruvian Forces From Tarapaca Port
Colombian troops ejected a Peruvian force from Tarapaca a Putumayo River port eight miles north of Leticia. The clash marks the second day of open hostilities after Peruvian planes bombed the Colombian gunboat Cordoba on the Amazon River. The Colombian foreign office issued passports to Peruvian legation staff.
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Begota
Colombia
Tarapaca
Putumayo
Leticia
Peru
Cordoba
Amazon
City plan aims to avoid street widening by curb parking shift
The city planning and assessment commissioners propose a block wide Jet in evel city block for automobile parking to remove the need for wider streets. This plan transfers curb parking and eliminates the necessity to widen city streets, directing traffic and parking in a new layout to free space.
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Torontos
Evel
Babe’s Brother a Cop Tallas
The youngest brother of Mildred Babe Jidrikson is a playground policeman in the city.
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Babe
Cop Tallas
Mildred
Babe) Jidrikson
Dallas Suburb Robbery At Highland Park West Home
Police found no clues in a $3500 robbery at a Highland Park West dinner party last night. Investigators think six gunmen could have been imported just yesterday, leaving detectives with little to go on.
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Associated Press
Dallas
Highland Park West
Pickett Sentenced To Life in Prison
AUSTIN Feb 15 J M Pickele pled guilty to murder and criminal assault and received a life sentence in each case. He was indicted for the slaying of Edgar Calriedge a University of Texas student last September. He confessed after former District Attorney Brooks promised that he would not demand the death penalty.
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Associated Press
Austin
J. M. Pickele
Pickett
Edgar Calriedge
University of Texas
Brooks
Banking group to aid on farm loans
Owen Sherill, manager of the Southwest Regional Crop Production Loan Office, said an advisory committee of about 12 bankers will be named soon to assist in passing on loan applications. Members will be chosen from Texas, Arizona and New Mexico and will be paid. The office aims to seek $10,000,000 this year, up from about $3,900,000 last year.
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Dallas
Owen Sherill
Southwest Regional Crop Production Loan Office
Texas
Arizona
New Mexico
Southwest
Sherifl
Woman Survives After Jumping 40-Foot Well Fire Escape
Mrs. Winifred Scholls nearly burned to death when her dress ignited while lighting an oil stove. She fled the house and jumped into a 40 foot well. Her husband lowered a ladder and rope to rescue her.
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London
Winifred Scholls
Okmulgee Farmers Halt Sheriff Sale In Foreclosure Protest
In Henryetta Oklahoma 200 farmers and homeowners protested delaying a sheriff sale of William McMahon's property to satisfy a mortgage foreclosure judgment. The postponement followed the protest.
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Okmulgee
Okla
William McMahon
Henryetta
Two Smart Ones and The Trade of a Salesman
A witty comparison claims an engineer grows to know more and more about less until knowing nearly everything about nothing while a salesman learns less and less, ending with almost nothing about everything.
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Jess
Tackey Party Stages Odd Autograph of Fun at Methodist Church
A quirky tackey party staged by Mrs. Gave Starnes and others at the First Methodist Church dazzled with original costumes and stunts. Mrs. D W Sweeney won first prize as the tackiest individual, while the Whittenbergs claimed doubles. The event featured comic roles, impersonations, an Indian sketch, lively refreshments, and a plan to inspire future similar entertainments.
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Gave Starnes
Jack Leonard
Vic Morrow
Henry Youree
D. W. Sweeney
Tilbert
Forrest Taylor
Jack
Elvira
Abner
Sen-Sen
O. K
Ole Virginny
Dresden China
Hana
Starnes
Cotton Market March Price Climb to Six Ninety Five
The market reports March cotton prices at 6.95 per pound, indicating a rise from the prior level with prices quoted for the three to four pot group.
Desperate Bandits Burn Home Steader in New Mexico Prairie
Associated Press reports two armed men bound Lee Marshall, 50, a homesteader, doused him with gasoline and set him afire on a desolate New Mexico prairie. Believed dead, Marshall freed himself, staggered three miles in zero weather to a neighbor, and is reported fatally burned by physicians.
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Associated Press
Ticumcari
N. M
Lee Marshall
Marshall
Radical Reform Proposed for Texas Judiciary Department
In Austin a joint resolution seeks sweeping changes to the Texas judiciary with a plan to save about 1.912 million annually by abolishing eleven Civil Appeals Courts seventy District Courts fifty County Judges sixty nine District Attorneys and one District Clerk The measure would expand the Supreme Court to nine members and the Court of Criminal Appeals to five while creating general jurisdiction County Courts replacing District Court authority An amendment to set a single county commissioner was tabled and another proposal to shorten judge terms was rejected
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Austin
Texas
T H. McGregor
Judiciary Department
Senate
Courts of Civil Appeals
Supreme Court
Court of Criminal Appeals
Wests
PD. P. Rathif
J. N. Reed
Nakamura warns China of invasion unless army moves end
Dunn and Co forecast revival in automobile industry as tensions with China prompt warnings of invasion unless military moves cease.
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Nakamura
China
Dunn& Co
Overton Denies Williams Falsehood Claim On Bridge Proposal
New Orleans February 15 Representative John H Overton told the senate committee investigating his election that Earl Long used the phrase false need when testifying that Overton would vet 200000 if the Nashville Bridge Co toll bridge plan for Louisiana was adopted.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
John H. Overton
Senate
Earl F Long
Overton
Nashville Bridge Co
Hoover Embargo Plan Approved by the House Today
The House Foreign Affairs Committee approved the Hoover arms embargo proposal with an amendment limiting 3 percent to the Americas. The action was reported from Washington on February 15 by the Associated Press.
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Hoover
House
Associated Press
Washington
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Americas
Senate Debates Repeal of 18th Amendment
The Senate voted 53 to 23 to take up consideration of the Blaine resolution to repeal the 18th Amendment. The move tests the Senate’s wet and dry balance as the session advances.
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Senate
Associated Press
Washington
The
Denison Merchants Oppose Collection Bill and Sales Tax
Denison merchants at a regular meeting condemned House Bill 62 prohibiting merchants associations from collecting unpaid accounts except through a lawyer. A petition to Austin and letters to state representatives were urged. The group also attacked a proposed sales tax bill as unsound.
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Denison
Feo
Merchants Association
Merchar’ Association
Austin
Gavel carved from rail split by Governor Hogg presented
Fel Austin reported that at age 13 Cole Stevenson and Ben Cathey presented a gavel made from a post rail split by late Governor James Stephen Hogg. The handle came from a pecan tree planted by Hogg in Mineola, and the event involved Speaker Wastoda and Adrian of Mineola.
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Austin
Weather note for East Texas and West Texas forecast
Weather bulletin covers temperature movements through 7 am with a max 429 Man reading and mentions likely rain on the west coast. It notes freezing in the inventory and eastern portions, milder conditions in the west, and forecasts Thursday partly cloudy and warmer in the north and west with rising temperatures in the north and east.
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Texas
Japan Ends Talks With League in Manchurian Dispute
Tokyo reports it has ceased negotiations with the League of Nations over Manchuria and will likely withdraw from the league within about a month. The Tokyo stock exchange closed at noon while Osaka and Nagoya markets shut amid price slumps from rising anti Japanese sentiment at Geneva.
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Tokyo
Japan
League of Nations
League
Tokyo Stock Exchange
Oaska
Nagoya
Geneva
Bonham C of C Annual Meeting Reviews Road Work
Despite cold weather Bonham Chamber of Commerce reports strong attendance and discusses county highway progress led by Judge Leslie. The session covers 1923 directors and highway plans from Bonham to the river with emphasis on funding and future expansion.
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Bonham Chamber of Commerce
Spivey
Chamber
Kidad VY Paysandbalt Apy
Leslie
Red River
State Highway Commission
Lesic
Tehway
Les ‘Han
Bonhan
Fannin County
Bonhom
Juda Leshe
Chamber of Commerce
Dai Wolford
Durrant
Highway Commission
Elis
Lowell's Bluff
George Keene
Hatman
Rightu
Benham
Bec Schwope
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Banking Group
Department OF Banking
Bonham State
Pter
Texas Judiciary Dept
Bonham, Texas
P. Long
Gov Hogg
Jappo
Bonham C.of C
C. of C. Directors
Luther Crawford
A. G. McRae
Rodgers W. C. Finley
Charles Halse
Dick Saunders
Sid Smith
Wi. A. McDougal
Reid Spivy
Cate
Gabe Chamber
Judee Fernet ‘Lesiwe
Judee Lee
Judge Lee
Bonham Furniture CO
Mary Coleman
Prop
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