Drought Relief and Unemployment Bills Move Through Congress
The House approved a $60 million drouth relief measure and the Senate advanced a $110 million unemployment construction program. A $150 million lump sum proposal was cut by the House Appropriations Committee, with gains for reporting requirements. Federal highway aid totals $80 million along with rivers harbors flood control and forest road funds under a revised plan.
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Washington
House
Senate
Agriculture Committee
Haugen
Hoover
House Appropriations Committee
Representative Burns
Tennessee
Appropriations Committee
Congress
Mississippi
Flowers for the Living 58th Anniversary Tribute
The judge and Mrs. Kane thank Mrs. Whaling and her Sunday School class for flowers sent on their 58th wedding anniversary. The note recalls a belief that giving flowers to the living yields more joy than giving to the dead, a sentiment linked to editor Lee J. Rountree.
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Austin Statesman
FE. R. Kane
H. M. Whaling
Lee J. Rountree
Rountree
Brazos County
Bryan Visitments Highlight Local Social Notes
Lee Davis of Waco, en route to Gaveston on business, visited Bryan today. Mrs. Lee J. Rountree and sister Mrs. W. M. Kelly, both of Waco, left for Houston for an operation at the Methodist Hospital repairing injuries from a long-ago auto wreck. Lizzie Wombie of Caldwell returned home after staying with the Webbs during Mr. Jas. H. Webb’s illness, with reports of improvement. Joe Wrenn of Normangee, Bryan native and longtime Normangee postmaster, returned home after a brief visit. he was the famed fiddler of Bryan in earlier years.
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Lee Davis
Waco
McLennan County
Bryan
Gaveston
Lee J. Rountree
W. M. Kelly
Houston
Isi Rountree
Methist Hospital
Lizzie Wombie
Caldwell
Jas. H. Webb
Mr. Webb
Joe Wrenn
Normangee
Wrenn
Bank Robbery in Kansas City Nets $50,000 to $55,000
Four unknown men robbed the Interstate National Bank in the Live Stock Exchange building in Kansas City today, escaping with currency estimated at $50,000 to $55,000. Police searched for the suspects.
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Kansas City
Interstate National Bank
Livestock Exchange
Kidnapped Son Charge Filed Against Father
Merlin Abbott, a salesman, was arrested in Los Angeles on a fugitive warrant charging kidnapping of his son Payton Abbott, 3, taken from the child's mother in Austin.
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Los Angeles
Merlin Abbott
Hil
Payton Abbott
Austin
Aged Man Freed In Long‑Past Assault Case
Albert Layman, 80, of Blackwell Oklahoma, 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
Football Banquet Honors Bryan College Players and Coaches
Lions and Rotary clubs hosted a Tuesday banquet in New York Cafe dining room honoring football players and coaches from Bryan College, Texas A and M Aggies, and Stephen F. Austin High. Dr. Lamar Jones opened the event, Cape E L Lyons served as toastmaster, and coaches and players received warm applause for their roles in last season’s victories.
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Bryan
College
Lions and
Rotary Clubs
Aggie
Allen
Stephen F. cAustin H S
Lions
Jointession
Syack
Anderson
New York
Dr. Jones
Cape E. L. Lyons
Texas A
Rotary
Tommy Mills
Bryan Hi
Flash
Eight Communists Executed in Hankow Case
Eight Communists including one woman were executed by shooting in Hankow on conviction of distributing Red propaganda. The executions took place on a downtown street as authorities sought to make the cases object lessons.
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Hankow
Chinag
Christmas Boxes For Veterans At Texas Hospital
The local Ameri can Legion Auxiliary approved Christmas box gifts from the State headquarters. Eighteen boxes will be sent to inmates at the Veterans Hospital in El Paso and a $15 cash donation will go to Kerrville Hospital, shared by veterans and their families at the hospital settlement. Funds come from the auxiliary rehabilitation fund from Poppy Day sales in Bryan and Brazos County.
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American Legion Auxiliary
Auxiliary
Legion
Bryan
Bragos County
Aviatrix Heads to Last Leg of Transcontinental Flight
Ruth Nichols, who arrived from Los Angeles to challenge the eastward record, took off from Wichita this morning aiming to reach New York this afternoon for the final leg of her record attempt.
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Aviatrix
Wichita
Kans
Ruth Nichols
Los Angeles
New York
Weather Outlook for Bryan and Texas Regions
Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday for Bryan and vicinity with rain in extreme eastern East Texas. West Texas fair tonight and Thursday with some cooling. East Texas partly cloudy tonight and Thursday with rains in northeast and extreme east. Cooler tonight in west and north areas.
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The
Eagle
New Orleans
Bryan
Vicinity
East Texas
West Texas
North Teday
Insanity Plea Upheld in Judge Brady Murder Case
The criminal appeals court affirmed a 3 year penitentiary sentence for former appeals court judge John W. Brady on murder without malice in the death of Miss Lehlia Highsmith. The conviction stemmed from an insanity induced by bootleg liquor after a Dallas county trial following a Travis county court disagreement. Highsmith, Brady’s paramour, was fatally stabbed after a football game.
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Austin
John W. Brady
Lehlia Highsmith
Brady
Dallas County
Travis
Miss Highsmith
44 Hour Week Passed for Postal Employees
Washington dec 10 the house approved a bill providing a 44 hour week with Saturday half holiday and compensation extra if Saturday is worked for 300 000 postal employees approved today the measure moves to the senate
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Washington
House
Evening Schools In Agriculture By A M Seniors
Local farmers attend evening schools in the Rye Smetana and Reliance communities in Brazos county and at Wheelock in Robertson county. Seniors in A and M College prepare to teach vocational agriculture in Texas high schools with lessons on terracing drainage poultry housing feeding and marketing and disease control. In Reliance a balanced farming program and new crop plans to replace cotton are discussed with farm analyses and status charts.
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Rye
Smetana
Reliance
Brazos County
Wheelock
Robertson County
A. and
M. College
Texas
Federation of Women's Clubs Holds December Luncheon
The Brazos County Federation of Women's Clubs will hold its regular December luncheon at St. Andrew's Episcopal Parish House on Thursday at 12 30. The program focuses on civic beautification and local work for spring and summer with Mrs B A Sims as civic committee chair. Luncheon renovations may be arranged by calling Mrs O B Martin or Mrs O O Henderson.
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Brazos County
Chilean Army General Charged in Plot to Bomb President Train
An attempted assassination plot aimed at President Carlos Ibanez and his party was foiled as government agents found and removed a bomb aboard the presidential train returning from the south. Conspirators were seen placing 16 kilos of dynamite under a railway bridge over Rio Maipo. arrests followed, including a Chilean army general.
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Santiago DE Chile
Decc
Carlos Ibanez
Rio Maipo
Riots in Valencia as Police Fire on Strikers
Rioting resumed in Valencia today as strikers clashed with police guarding non union bakery workers. One man was critically wounded when police fired into the mob while looting continued and business stayed paralyzed. Citizens feared to leave their homes.
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Valencia
Spain
Bandera Wool Shipped for Boston Firm
About 150000 pounds of Bandera wool from the Bandera County Ranchmen's and Farmers' Association has been shipped. The wool will be delivered by steamer from Galveston to a Boston firm.
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Bandera
Bandera County
Catholic Bazaar Nets Over 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 grossed over 200 dollars with final expenses not yet complete. A chicken dinner Monday and a turkey dinner Tuesday were served, and thanks were given to all who assisted and patronized.
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John Stasney
St. Clair
Cotton and Grain Market Edges Lower
The cotton market moved mildly lower with futures about 15 points down. Local spot prices showed no change.
Thousands Saved To Farmers Thru Rodent Control
College Station report details rodent control efforts by the U S Bureau of Biological Survey in Texas. Prairie dogs and jack rabbits on 31 270 acres in West Texas and pocket gophers on 1 050 acres in East Texas were targeted in the first quarter, with an estimated saving of 9 025 to ranchers through fore stallment of damage. Costs included 860 50 and 52 cooperators using poisoned grain. Brown county nearly prairie dog free. A rat campaign in a South Texas town followed Brill's disease findings and used traps and poison with local cooperation.
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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
Hudspeth
Pecos
Crockett
Dawson
Garza
Hale
Fisher
Lipscomb
Runnels
Coleman
Taylor
Brown County
East Texas
South Texas
Brill
Trio Held in Velasco Bank Robbery
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 suspects were arrested last night by authorities.
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Angleton
Jim Collins
Buster Dunn
Jack Jackson
Velasco State Bank
Local Brazos Red Cross Roll Call Totals 1930
The Brazos County Red Cross reports 1930 roll call totals of 805.19 with Bryan 386.00 Col lege Station 352.19 Allen Farm 10 Allen Academy 45 Tabor 5 Steep Hollow 5 Shiloh 2 Major J E Sloan led A and M College sub committee collecting 352.19 exceeding the quota of 300. American Legion members are thanked for their service during the drive.
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Red Cross
Brazos County
Roll Call
J. Webb Howell
Bryan
College Station
Allen Farm
Allen Academy
Tabor
Steep Hollow
Shiloh
Howell
American Red Crows
J. E. Sloan
A. and M. College
Sloan
American Legion
Hamburg Police Shoot Into Mob Kills One
In Hamburg at the waterfront rioting scene today a Communist was killed and another wounded as a mob threw stones. Police fired in response to the violence.
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Hamburg
Germany
Audit of Confederate Home May Not Be Examined Before First of Year
State board of control delays action on the special audit of the Confederate Veterans home in Austin. The delay follows silence during the United Daughters of the Confederacy convention and comes as resignations of Taber and two other employees were handed to the board.
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Alfred Munn
Sherman
Austin
State Board of Control
Moore Lynn
Confederate Veterans Home
United Daughters of the Confederacy
A. W. Taber
Taber
Bank Robbery at Frankston Nets 13000 in Cash
Three heavily bearded men armed with a machine gun robbed the First State Bank at Frankston of $13,000. Assistant cashier Mrs. Watkins locked in the vault. The trio headed toward Athens, cutting wires through Poyner and toward Palestine, according to officers.
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Frankston
First State Bank
Watkins
Athens
Poyner
Palestine
Florida Crops Damaged by Heavy Frosts Across Everglades
Sub-freezing conditions hit Florida last night with damage to truck crops and fruit groves in the Everglades area. Miami escaped freezing but temperatures fell to about 30 near the city, while the Weather Bureau logged the frost warnings.
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Miami
Fla
Everglades
Florida
Weather Bureau
Gulf company places six tankers back in service
Port Arthur report states that three of six Gulf Oil tankers laid up due to production curtailment have been returned to service signaling a return to normal times. The announcement notes the six ships were in port for the oil industry adjustment.
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Port Arthur
Gulf Company
Kingsford Smith Weds Mary Powell in Melbourne
Wing Commander Kingsford Smith, famed trans Atlantic and trans Pacific flier, marries Miss Mary Powell in Scott's church Melbourne amid Irish Australian community presence.
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Melbourne
Australia
Dees
Chas, Kingsford - Smith
Mary Powell
Scott
Man alters name to Broussard for easier say
Beaumont dispatch reports Joseph Nelson Delachaussee has legally changed his name to Broussard after friends could not pronounce the original. The brief note notes the administrative step and the new name.
Will Rogers on an Organized Grief Cheer Scene
A Beverly Hills reader laments a cheer squad assembled to cheer but left silent, describing collective disappointment and frustration at a public event. The missive critiques the setup and its inability to generate audible support.
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The
Eagle
Beverly Hills
Cal
Dee
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Federation of Women’s Clubs
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