Unemployment Relief Bills Advance In Congress
The Senate moves $110 million unemployment relief and $60 million drouth aid through without opposition while House action tightens spending rules. Agriculture panel to review a related $30 million work program before the drouth measure proceeds. Highway and river projects receive funding totals and must be spent by Sept. 1, 1931.
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Washington
House
Senate
Agriculture Committee
Haugen
Hoover
House Appropriations Committee
Burns
Tennessee
Appropriations Committee
Congress
Mississippi
Flowers for the Living 58th Anniversary Thanks Letter
Judge and Mrs. BE R Kane thank Mrs H M Whaling and Sunday School class for flowers on their 58th wedding anniversary. The note recalls Kane’s belief that giving flowers to the living yields more good than giving to the dead, a sentiment linked to editor Lee J Rountree’s support.
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Austin Statesman
BE. R. Kane
H. M. Whaling
Lee J. Rountree
Rountree
Brazos County
Lee Davis and others travel through Bryan on various trips
Lee Davis of Waco, a McLennan county planter, visited Bryan on business en route to Gaveston. Mrs. Lee J. Rountree and her sister, Mrs. W. M. Kelly of Waco, left for Houston for plastic surgery. Lizzie Wombie of Caldwell returned home after visiting in Bryan as Mr. Webb shows improvement. Joe Wrenn of Normangee, Bryan native and longtime postmaster, returns home after a short visit. famed fiddler remains active.
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Lee Davis
Waco
McLennan County
Bryan
Gaveston
Lee J. Rountree
W. M. Kelly
Houston
Rountree
Methist
Lizzie Wombie
Caldwell
Jas. H. Webb
Mr. Webb
Joe Wrenn
Nor Mangee
Wrenn
Normangee
Bank Robbery In Live Stock Exchange Building
Four men held up the Interstate National Bank in the Live Stock Exchange building in Kansas City. They escaped with currency estimated between $55,000 and $60,000. Police pursuit underway.
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Kansas City
Interstate National Bank
Livestock Exchange
Kidnapped Son Charge Filed Against Father
Los Angeles police arrest Merlin Abbott on a fugitive warrant charging kidnapping of his son Payton Abbott, 3, from the child's mother in Austin. Abbott is a salesman and was taken into custody today.
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Los Angeles
Deer
Merlin Abbott
Payton Abbott
Austin
Aged Man Freed In Old Case of Intent to Kill
Albert Layman aged 80 from Blackwell Oklahoma was acquitted in Macon Missouri on a one year old charge of assault with intent to kill Thomas Billings of La Plata Missouri. Billings was injured with an axe in 1889.
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Macon
Albert Layman
Blackwell
Okla
Thomas Billings
la Platta
Billings
Bryan and College Football Banquet Held by Lions and Rotaries
A Bryan High and three college football squads including Aggie Allen and Stephen F. Austin were honored at a joint Lions and Rotary banquet Tuesday night. Dr. Lamar Jones welcomed guests at New York Cafe, with Capt E L Lyons of Texas A and M as toastmaster introducing coaches and players amid hearty applause.
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Bryan
College
Lions and
Rotary Clubs
Aggie
Allen
Stephen F. S Austin H S
Lions Rotary Clubs
M. Ivack
Anderson
New York
Lamar Jones
The
Lions
Jones
E. L. Lyons
Texas A
Rotary
Tommy Mills
Bryan Hi
Flash
Eight Communists Executed in Hankow Trial
Eight Communists including one woman were executed by shooting in Hankow China for distributing Red propaganda. The executions took place on a down town street as authorities sought to make the cases object lessons.
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Hankow
China
Christmas Boxes For Veterans At Texas Hospital
Ameri can Legion Auxiliary units approved Christmas assignments from the State headquarters. The Bryan unit will prepare and send 18 boxes to veterans at El Paso Hospital and donate $15 to Kerrville Hospital, split for veterans and families. Funds come from the rehabilitation fund tied to Poppy Day activities in Brazos county.
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American Legion Auxiliary
Mra
J. E.stanford
Total‘auxiliary
Veterans Hospital
el Paso
Kerrville
Auxiliary
Legion
Bryan
Brazos County
Aviatrix Aims at Eastward Transcontinental Record
Ruth Nichols, who arrived from Los Angeles, left Wichita this morning bound for New York as she attempts to lower the eastward transcontinental flight record. The leg from Kansas to the East is under way with an expected arrival in New York this afternoon.
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Wichita, Kans
Ruth Nichols
Los Angeles
New York
Weather Forecast for Bryan and Surrounding Areas
Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday with rain in extreme eastern East Texas. West Texas will be fair tonight and Thursday and somewhat colder tonight. East Texas is partly cloudy tonight and Thursday with rains in the northeast and extreme east, cooler in the northwest tonight and cooler on Thursday.
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the Eagle
New Orleans
Bryan
Vicinity
East Texas
West Texas
Northwest
Brady Loses Appeal to Higher Court
A capital case ends with Brady losing an appeal to a higher court over the fatal stabbing of a young woman who worked as a Capitol stenographer. The ruling upholds a prior conviction and death sentence, with the court leaving other issues unresolved.
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Brady
Higher Court
Made Insanity Plea By Ex-Judge In Fatal Stabbing
The Texas criminal appeals court affirmed a 3 year penitentiary sentence for John W Brady a former appeals court judge convicted in Dallas County of murder without malice on an insanity plea. Brady killed his paramour Miss Lehlia Highsmith after a football game revealing prior intimacy.
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Austin
John W. Brady
Lehlia Highsmith
Brady
Dallas County
Travis
Miss Highsmith
44 Hour Week for Postal Employees Passes House
Washington Dec 10 The house today passed the bill providing a 44 hour week with Saturday half holiday and compensation extra if Saturday is worked for 300000 postal employes.
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Washington
House
Evening Agriculture Classes Draw Texas Farmers
Local farmers attend evening schools in the Rye Smetana and Reliance communities in Brazos county and Wheelock in Robertson county. A and M College seniors train to teach vocational agriculture in Texas high schools. Sessions cover terracing drainage poultry diseases and balanced farming with charted farm analyses.
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Rye
Smetana
Reliance
Brazos County
Wheelock
Robertson County
A. and
M. College
Texas
Brazos County Federation of Women Hosts December Luncheon
The Brazos County Federation of Women's Clubs will hold its December luncheon at St. Andrew's Episcopal Parish house Thursday at 12 30. The program will focus on civic beautification and spring and summer local work. Mrs B A Sims chairs the civic committee and reservations may be made by calling Mrs C B Martin or Mrs C C Henderson.
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Brazos County
Chilean Army General Charged in Plot to Bomb Presidential Train
Government agents foiled an assassination bid on President Carlos Ibanez and his party as they rode the presidential train toward Santiago. Ten kilos of dynamite were found under a Rio Maipo bridge and arrests, including a Chilean army general, were made.
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Santiago DE Chile
Carlos Ibanez
Rio Maipo
Rioting Flares in Valencia as Police Fire on Mobs
Rioting resumed in Valencia with strikers clashing with police guarding non union bakery workers. One man was critically wounded when police fired into the crowd. Looting continued, businesses paralyzed, and citizens kept indoors as police fired into the air to disperse mobs.
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Valencia
Spain
Bandera Wool Shipped to Boston Firm by Sea
About 150000 pounds of Bandera wool are shipped by Bandera County Ranchmen and Farmers association. The wool will be delivered by steamer from Galveston to a Boston firm.
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Bandera
Catholic Bazaar Profits Top Two Hundred Dollars
Mrs. John Stasney president of St. Clair's Altar Society at St. Joseph's Catholic church reports the bazaar held Monday and Tuesday raised more than 200 dollars net after some expenses. A Monday chicken dinner and Tuesday turkey dinner complemented the event as donors and helpers were thanked for a successful affair.
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John Stasney
St. Clair
Cotton and Grain Market Edged Down in Mixed Trades
The cotton market closed modestly lower by about 15 points while the local spot market showed no change. Wheat and corn prices displayed shifts tied to futures activity with mixed percentages and near steady levels in some contracts.
Thousands Saved To Farmers Thru Rodent Control
In the first quarter of the present fiscal year the Texas district of the U S Bureau of Biological Survey with county farm agents and the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station treated 31 270 acres in West Texas for prairie dogs and jack rabbits and in East Texas for pocket gophers at a cost of 860 50 yielding an estimated savings of 9 025 to ranchers by preventing damage to range and crops.
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Eagle
College Station
Texas
Texas District
U. S. Bureau of Biological Survey
Texas “Agricultural Experiment Station
L. C. Whitehead
United States ‘Bureau of Biological Survey
A. and M. College’ of Texas
Prairie Dog
Hudspeth
Pecos
Crockett
Dawson
Garza
Hale
Fisher, Lipscomb
Runnels
Coleman
Taylor
Brown County
East Texas
South Texas
Trio Held in Velasco Bank Robbery Case
Angleton December 10. Jim Collins Buster Dunn and Jack Jackson were charged with robbery with firearms in the $5 000 Velasco State Bank heist. The three men were arrested last night.
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Angleton
Jim Collins
Buster Dunn
Jack Jackson
Velasco State Bank
Red Cross 1930 Roll Call Totals for Brazos County
The Brazos County American Red Cross reports 1930 roll call receipts totaling 805.19 with Bryan 386 and College Station 352.19. Major J. E. Sloan led the A and M sub-committee, surpassing the 300 quota. American Legion members are specially credited for their service.
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Red Cross
Brazos County
Roll Call
J. Webb Howell
Bryan
College Station
Allen Farm
Allen Academy
Tabor
Steep Hollow
Shitoh
Howell
American Red Cross
J. E. Sloan
A. and M. College
Sloan
American Legion
Hamburg Police Shoot Into Mob Dies in Waterfront Riots
Hamburg Germany December 10 rioting along the waterfront left one Communist dead and another wounded after a mob threw stones prompting police to fire.
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Hamburg
Germany
Audit Delay in Confederate Home Audit
The Texas state board of control will likely not act before January 1 on the disposition of a special audit of the Confederate Veterans home in Sherman. Silence during the United Daughters of the Confederacy convention suggested they would wait. Taber and two employees resigned but the board refused to accept.
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Alfred Munn
Sherman
Associated Press
Austin
State Board of Control
Moore Lynn
Confederate Veterans Home
United Daughters of the Confederacy
A. W. Taber
Taber
Robbers Lock Woman Clerk In Bank Vault
Three bearded men armed with a machine gun robbed the First State Bank at Frankston of $13,000. The assistant cashier, Mrs Watkins, was locked in the vault as the robbers fled toward Athens, cutting wires near Poyner and headed toward Palestine.
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Frankston
First State Bank
Watkins
Athens
Poyner
Palestine
Florida crop hit today by heavy frosts
Sub freez ing weather in South Florida damaged truck crops and fruit groves in the Everglades area during the night. Miami escaped freezing but temperatures dropped to around 30 degrees a few miles from the city.
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Miami
Fila
Everglades
Florida
Weather Bureau
Gulf Company Restores Six Tankers In Oil Curtailment
In Port Arthur on December 10 the Gulf Company announced that three of six tankers laid up due to oil production curtailment have been placed back in service, signaling a return to normal operations.
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Port Arthur
Gulf Company
Kingsford Smith Weds Mary Powell in Melbourne Church
Wing Commander Chas Kingsford-Smith marries Miss Mary Powell in Scott's Church Melbourne. Irish-Australian bride is described as pretty. ceremony marks a notable aviation figure's wedding today.
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Kingsford Smith
Mary Powell
Melbourne
Australia
Dees
Chas, Kingsford - Smith
Scott
Man Change of Name Broussard From Delachaussee in Beaumont
Dec 10 in Beaumont reports Joseph Nelson Delachaussee has legally changed his name to Broussard because friends could not pronounce it.
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Beaumont
Joseph Nelson Delachaussee
Broussard
Will Rogers Laments Organized Grief in Beverly Hills
In Beverly Hills on December 10 Will Rogers vents about a planned cheering section that fails to cheer, calling it organized grief. He notes the disappointment of a crowd rising to support without any signal or outcome to celebrate.
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The
Eagle
Beverly Hills
Cal
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