Dallas and Texas News Briefs From Sunday Events
Twelve people injured in auto accidents in Dallas. A Denison Rialto theatre theft costs 118 dollars, with a manager robbed. Dallas attorney Dillon Thomas enters Congress race at the last minute. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation loans 75 million to 50 thousand farmers through the Agriculture Department. A Dallas taxi driver reports a passenger robbed him of nine dollars. An engineer from a gravel company is found dead in a gravel pit near Carrollton. An empty revolver lies nearby. Lord Rothermere predicts the Hohenzollerns may reclaim the German throne. A couple’s Evanston wedding ends with a No detector test at the ceremony. Polish-American flyer Stansilius Hausner is missing after flying to Poland. A boy loses an eye during a hawk attack near Winnipeg. Italian seaplane pilots now wear diving suits for water escape. A Wichita Falls twister damages property and injures a boy. Over 600 degrees awarded at Texas UT commencement. U.S. attorney nomination approved for Eastern Texas. The federal deficit nears 2.7 billion with 27 days left in 1932. Georgetown graduates include a royal-blood prince. Corsicana man James Barber suffers heat prostration in South Dallas. Dallas record heat reaches 87. New York citizens demand Mayor Walker’s removal amid Seabury inquiry findings. Grafting charges noted.
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Barroom boast ends in burning assault in Philadelphia
John Cupo 31 boasted he could drink alcohol straight during a Philadelphia incident. The first swallow made him sputter and spill it on clothing and floor. John Boccalupo tossed a match, burning Cupo. Boccalupo is held on four counts of assault and battery by burning.
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Philadelphia
John Cupo
John Boccalupo
Hig
Cupo
Woecalupo
Lions Clubs 16th Annual Convention in Los Angeles
California Here I Come slogan as Lions Clubs plan the 16th annual convention in Los Angeles from July 19 to 22 with about 15 000 delegates expected. President Julien C Hyer leads 80 000 members in 2 600 clubs across the United States Canada Cuba China and Hawaii. Governor James Rolf Jr will give welcome. Los Angeles mayor to present city keys as aviator Bernt Balechen attends. The four day session highlights work for the blind and international Olympic Games after the convention.
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International Association of Lions Clubs
Los Angeles
California
Julien C. Hyer
Fort Worth
Texas
United States
Canada
Cuba
China
Hawaii
James Rolf, Jr
Lion Bernt Balechen
Hasprouck Heights
New Jersey
Ernest Thompson Assumes Duties on Railroad Commission
Ernest O Thompson sworn in as Texas Railroad Commissioner to fill the vacancy from Pat Neff resignation. He attended his first full meeting with chairman C W Terrell and member Lon A Smith, as the commission heard Henderson Inc petition to operate a gasoline extraction plant at Sanford. hearing postponed due to Henderson illness. The commission previously ordered the Henderson plant closed, arguing its operation wastage of natural gas. Henderson seeks permission to run part of the plant to preserve its wells and equipment.
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Austin
Ernest O. Thompson
Texas Railroad Commission
Pat M. Neff
F. C. Henderson, Inc
Sanford
Henderson
C. W. Terrell
Thompson
Terrell
Lon A. Smith
Permissiol
Texas Weather Snapshot and Tonight Forecast
The 24 hour period ends today at 93 degrees high and 64 low. East Texas remains generally fair and warm overnight while West Texas is partly cloudy tonight.
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East Texas
West Texas
Four Thousand Vets Split Washington Bonus Leadership
In Washington nearly 4,000 veterans split over leadership as George Alman of Portland was ousted as commander in chief and replaced by W. C. Cox with A. F. Taylor as vice commander. The group aims for immediate payment of service certificates amid police and congressional scrutiny, with 59 trucks arriving to swell encampments and a planned Capitol crowd for June 13.
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Washington
Legislative Committee
George Alman
Portland
Ore
Alman
Walter W. Waters
W. C. Cox
Bonus Expeditionary Forces
A. F. Taylor
Taylor
George Kleinholtz
Erie
Pelham D. Glassford
Glassford
Jung
Garner
Blanton
Ex.s
Metropolitan Police Force
Hill
Pittsburgh
New Jersey
Cleveland
Sina
Dallas
Brawley
Cal
Kansas
Charleston
Richmond
Florida
Spencer
N. C
Danville
Spartanburg
S. Co
Brazos River Bridge Opens in Granbury Honor to Crockett
Associated Press reports the Brazos River bridge linking Johnson and Hood counties was inaugurated in Granbury with thousands attending. The ceremony honored Day Crockett with descendants present. widow Crockett had settled there and her son helped build early West Texas bridges. Governor Sterling delivered the principal address.
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Associated Press
Granbury
Brazos River
Johnson
Hood Counties
Crockett
Robert
West Texas
Sterling
Reynolds Leads Morrison in North Carolina Senate Primary
Charlotte June 7 Reynolds tops Senator Morrison by 6300 votes in a dry primary with several precincts still unreported. Reynolds advocated repeal of prohibition while Morrison remained a dry. Five candidates contested forcing a runoff in the senate race.
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Associated Press
Charlotte
N. C
North Carolina
Robert R. Reynolds
Cameron Morrison
Reynolds
Morrison
Sounds Like Fight Among Lot Greasers
In San Antonio on June 4 20 year old Arthur Williams was shot dead and 22 year old Joe Perkins wounded in a park melee between rival east and west side gangs. Detectives say the gangs met and clashed with knives guns clubs and stones in a free-for-all fight.
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Associated Press
San Antonio
Arthur Williams
Joe Perkins
Father and Son Drowned in Pool In Ellis County
In Waxahachie on June 6 Leonard Wynn 35 and his son Charles 4 drowned in a pool near Maypearl after the father cramped while swimming with the boy on his back. A 7-year-old brother witnessed, and the mother, racing to help, fractured her arm falling from a car and then entering the pool. The pair were buried at Files Valley after double services at Maypearl.
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Waxahachie
Leonard Wynn
Charles
Maypearl
Wynn
Files Valley
Rockefeller Jr Urges Repeal of Prohibition Amendment
John D. Rockefeller Jr., lifelong temperance advocate, declares the Eighteenth Amendment a failure and urges repeal. He seeks a repeal plank in both Republican and Democratic platforms to depoliticize the issue, recounting his teetotaler family history and the temperance struggle led by his mother and grandmother.
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New York
John D. Rockfeler Jr
Nicholas Murray Butler
Rockefeller
Columbia University
Was Judge Ely an Appointee or Elected to Job
Palo Pinto June 7. W R Ely chairman of Highway Commission, replying to Governor Sterling on delaying the Bankhead Highway cutoff, testified in a special court hearing on a temporary injunction. He said he would not be dictated to by any governor as long as he remained a member, and that the Commission would answer only to the people.
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Ely
Associated Press
Palo Pinto
W. R. Ely
Haghway Commission
Sterling
Bankhead Highway
Highway Commission
Weatherford
Strawn
Dawes Resigns as President of Big Finance Corp
Charles G. Dawes resigns as president of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, to take effect June 15, returning to his Chicago bank. Hoover signs a $1,118,500,000 revenue bill concurrently, with Dawes noting he waited for the measure to pass before stepping down to focus on personal affairs.
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Washington
Charles G. Dawes
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Chicago
Hoover
White House
Dawes
Eight Die As Cleveland Fire Traps Residents
An explosion and fire swept a downtown Cleveland apartment building killing eight and injuring about thirty. Two people remain missing as about 200 residents were affected. Dozens fled via fire escapes and nets while women in night clothes were rescued amid chaotic scenes.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
Nto
Figuring Hausner as Dead, His Wife to Receive $2 000
New York June 7 Stanislaus Hausner not heard from since a flight attempt to Poland last Friday. The motion pictures machine operators union will pay his wife a $2 000 benefit on the assumption that Hausner is dead. He joined the union in 1924.
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Associated Press
New York
Stanislaus Hausner
Novia Scotia
Poland
Motion Pictures Machine Operators Union
Hausner
Union
Field Has Field Beaten in Contest in Des Moines
Returns from 65 percent of precincts show Field leading Brookhart by 31,000 in a four cornered senatorial primary in Des Moines with a majority over all rivals.
Glassford Told to Cut Out Feeding Bonus Boys Now
Washington June 7 Police Commissioner Cros by warned Supt. of Police Glassford that sheltering and feeding the Bonus Marchers could bring about his dismissal by the White House. Crosby sits on the three DC commissioners appointed by the president and Glassford reports to him. The commissioners say Glassford’s bivouac plans drew more veterans to Washington, while the administration seeks to discourage the influx.
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Texarkana Texas
Texas
Washington
Texarkana
Glassford
Associated Press
Herbst B. Crosby
White House
Crosby
District of Columbia
Three Men Named to Help Settle Right ofway Case
At a commissioners court meeting Tom Carter of Bonham, C P Leonard and Buck Cooper of Ivanhoe were named to a committee to confer with citizens on Highway 5 right of way. Tom Williams has worked days to secure agreements with most property owners, with potential condemnations still possible. A final decision is hoped next week before deeds to the state and bids for work, set to begin late summer.
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Commissioner’s Court
Tom Carter
Bonham
C. P Leonard
Buck Cooper
Ivanhoe
Tom Williams
Whch
We Want Hopkins Cry of Democrats Down Tamale Way
A petition with thirty six signatures from Bexar county asks that Senator W. K. Heovick of Gonzales have his name placed on the Democratic nomination ticket. The executive committee chairman received the petition today.
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Hopkins
Tamale Way
Houston
Bexar County
W. K. Heovick
Gonzales
W O. Huggins
Furlough Plan Rejected by Senate Vote
Washington July date uncertain as Senate rejects Hoover plan for a ten percent government pay cut substitute. The 40 vote against the measure blocks a required economy plan. The action follows calls for cost savings and a formal government belt tightening.
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Senate
Jane
The
Hoover
Reurie
Mrs Garrett Killed in Automobile Wreck Near Prince
Mrs Wilief Male Garrett McKinney dies in crash that also injures husband Charles D Garrett and two children Jesse Newton and Charlie Man. Driver JC Carte suffers facial injuries. Jack Thrasher, son-in-law, injured. Red Cross aids provide farm board wheat and relief to nearby farmers.
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McKinney Mir
Jack Thrasher
Garr
Garret
Prince On In
Charles D Garret
Jesse Newton
Charlie Man
Red Cross
Farm Board
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