Navy orders court martial for General Butler over Philadelphia remarks
The Secretary of the Navy ordered a general court martial for Major General Smedley D. Butler of the Marine Corps for alleged remarks at a Philadelphia speech on January 19 criticizing Mussolini. Adams said he received an explanatory letter from Butler but did not disclose its content and acted without involving the state department.
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Navy
Adams
Smedley D. Butler
Marine Corps
Philadelphia
Mussolini
Butler
State Department
Charles Francis Adams
Secretary of the Navy
The People's Column from Bryan Texas January 28
A Bryan citizen critiques local issues from a readers column including chickens and cows in city limits, troublesome dogs, and taxes for dog owners. The letter argues for humane priorities, urging support for Red Cross over pet spending and noting hungry residents.
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Bryan
Texas
Peoples
Red Cross
Beaumont visitor departs as Bryan updates
Mrs. W C Johnson of Beau mont returns to Beaumont after weeks in Bryan at her mother Mrs J N Cole's bedside on East 24th street. Mrs Cole shows health improvement and is up in her room. Edna Earl Bethea and Mildred Jahn, daughters of local families, return from Austin after attending the inaugural reception for Governor Ross Sterling. W S Barron travels to Anderson on business. Bryan radio concert featuring local musicians airs on WTAW with Marie Martinsen and Rev J B Gleissner noted for a piano rendition amid health notes.
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Edna Earl Bethea
Lamar Bethea
Mildred Jahn
Hugo Jahn
Austin
Ross S. Sterling
Capitol City
Bryan
Roy Danforth
WTAW
Stee
House Votes to Reject Senate Red Cross Relief Plan
The House Appropriations Committee voted to disapprove the Senate proposal for 25 million dollars in Red Cross relief. Washington dispatch from January 2044 reports the committee’s action against the relief package.
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House
Senate
Washington
Jan
House Appropriations Committee
U S Issues Notes Over Derogatory Mussolini Remarks
Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson hands the Italian ambassador a note of apology to Premier Mussolini for alleged derogatory remarks about Mussolini in a speech by Major General Smedley D. Butler. Italian envoy DeMartino expresses satisfaction at the move to soothe the offense.
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Washington
Henry L. Stimson
Mussolini
Italy
Smedley D. Butler
Marine Corps
DeMartino
Gotham Brokers Barred Today by Stock Exchange
New York Stock Exchange announces the expulsion of Philip L. Smith Philip W. Smith and a one year suspension for Henry M. Wreszin of Barbour and Company for having interests adverse to customers. Barbour and Company dissolved January 10.
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Gotham
Stock Exchange
New York
New York Stock Exchange Today
Philip L. Smith
Philip W. Smith
Henry M. Wreszin
Barbour and Company
Cotton and Grain Market Quiet on Friday
The cotton market showed no change today with local spots quoted steady from Y's to Y's cents. Wheat and corn prices are listed with unclear figures and mixed highs and lows across March May and other contracts.
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Y's
Plan of Drouth Relief in Texas Told Rotarians
O B Martin director of A M College Extension Service spoke to the Bryan Rotary Club about the 45 million dollar federal drouth relief fund. He outlined administration of loans for feed seed fertilizer and other relief needs and noted Texas would receive about 4 75 million for more than 14 000 farming families with limits based on per family costs.
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Drouth Relief
Texas
O. B. Martin
A-M Extension Service
A. & M. College
Drouth
Bryan Rotary Club
Connes
Mr. Martin
Martin
Youth Heroic Tragedy and Medal Honors in Texas and Arkansas
J Sterling Hardy, 18, died aiding two men amid gas fumes in a Nederland Texas tank ship area on January 16 1920. The Carnegie Hero Fund awarded a bronze medal to his father. Irl H Lantz 40 of Dallas earned a bronze medal for rescuing Dudley Caswell 20 from burning in Smackover Arkansas. Henry Hanna 21 died and Lanier Bennett 19 injured in a fog related crash near Martin Texas while en route to Abilene. Hanna was a Texas A&M student.
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Pittsburgh
Penn
J. Sterling Hardy
Nederland
Texas
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
Hardy
John H. Hardy
Box
Irl H. Lantz
South Brighton Street
Dallas
Leon W. Glover
Hardy H. Smith
Young Hardy
Glover
Smith
Lantz
Dudley W. Caswell, Jr
Smackover
Ark
Caswell
Fuller
Martin
Henry Hanna
Lanier Bennett
R. B. McDonald
McDonald
Hanna
Bennett
Abilene
Weather Outlook Delivers Mixed Conditions Across Regions
The bulletin notes Bryan and vicinity: partly cloudy and cooler tonight with Friday mostly fair. West Texas: mostly fair tonight and Friday. Southeast tonight turns colder. East Texas: partly cloudy with occasional rains in the Rio Grande Valley and cooler in the south and extreme east tonight with Friday mostly fair.
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The
Eagle
New Orleans
Bryan
West Texas
East Texas
Rio Grande Valley
Dodd Proposes Texas State Income Tax Plan
Representative Dodd of Nash introduces a bill taxing income from property and business in Texas with exemptions for individual incomes up to 2500 and 5000 for couples. Dependents receive 400 exemptions each, and rates range from 2 to 12 percent across income brackets above magnitude.
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Austin
Dodd
Nash
Texas
Bryan's Manager To Attend Gridiron Dinner Weekend
City Manager R. G. Williams received a telegram inviting him to a Saturday morning breakfast with state legislators and Gov. Sterling at Bayside. He will join J. M. West for lunch and accompany the party on a ship canal trip and Gridiron Club dinner at the Rice hotel Saturday evening. He will drive to Houston Friday evening to join the group.
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R. G. Williams
S. Sterling
Bayside
J. M. West
Ship Canal
Rice Hotel
Mr. Williams
Houston
Gad Csaba
Mob binds sheriff and deputy in Cheyenne area murder case
An eighty man masked mob overpowered guards at a North Dakota jail, binding the sheriff and his aide and taking Charles Bannon 22 from custody. Bannon died in a related incident near a bridge after confessing to killing a family of six including two adults and four children. His father remained in custody for questioning.
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E. A. Haven
Bannon
Mavens
Writer of Note Will Speak Here At Woman's Club
Grace Nell Crowell, renowned writer and lecturer, will visit Bryan to speak at the Woman's Club on February 20 under the club’s auspices. The club also announced J Webb Howell’s appointment to the yearbook committee for 1931-32.
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Woman’s Club
Grace Nell Crowell
Bryan
Woman's Club
Bryan Woman's Club
J. Webb Howell
J. L. Brock
L. L. McInnis
W. H. Cole
Greenland
E. W. Crenshaw
New Hebrides
S. E. Eberstadt
Ida Kernodle
P. T. Montfort
St. Pierre
Thos. Lundin
Tahiti
W. S. Howell
Channel Islands
8. C. Hoyle
Malta
J. B. Priddy
Robben Islands
McInnis
Isle of Somewhere
IL. A. Dalrymple
C. W. Simmons
Tank cars derailed and burned near San Angelo
Rail traffic on the Santa Fe from San Angelo to Brownwood halted after eight tank cars left the track and exploded seven miles west of San Antonio. No injuries reported.
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San Antonio
Santa Fe
San Angelo
Brownwood
Here
Flight of DO-X Delayed for New Engine and Wing Tests
The DO X trans Atlantic sea plane with twelve motors is postponed to Saturday from Friday for further testing of modified engines and wing arrangements. The test plan includes additional trials to verify performance under the adjusted configurations near Lisbon Portugal.
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Losbon
Portugal
Texas Sulphur Tax Proposal and Session Notes
Texas Representative Johnson introduces a bill to tax sulphur production at 1.25 per ton. Other measures include taxes on butter substitutes and salt. Governor Sterling signs a bill delaying tax delinquency to October 15 as Woodul proposes four senate joint resolutions and mentions past failed amendments.
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Texas
Austin
Johnson
House
Senate
Rice Tilley
Hornsby
Ross S. Sterling
Walter Woodul
Houston
Hoeper
Woodul
Mexico bars air trips as foreign pilots restricted
Mexico announces orders prohibiting commercial flights by foreign aviators without a permit or employer of an established airline. The move targets sightseeing flights, notably in northern Mexico, where American pilots allegedly operate without government permission.
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Mexico City
Department of Communications
Mexico
Fifteen Indicted for Mail Frauds in Oil and Gas Deal
Oklahoma City dispatch reports a federal grand jury indicting J. C. Walton former governor Richard E. Enright ex New York City police commissioner Henry Knight Miller editor S. E. J. Cox and 12 others in mail fraud related to the defunct Universal Oil and Gas Company. Cox and eight others are free on bond. Walton Enright and Miller have not been arrested.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
J. C
Jack) Walton
Oklahoma
Richard E. Enright
New York City
Henry Knight Miller
Psychology
S. E. J. Cox
Frederick A. Cook
Universal Oil and Gas Company
Cox
Walton
Enright
Miller
Bus Overturned Injuring Thirty Children Near Youngstown
A school bus overturned near Youngstown Ohio injuring thirty children none fatally. Two children were seriously hurt and taken to a hospital for treatment.
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Youngstown
Ohio
Tomato and Potato Growers Meet in Brazos County Urged
President J. B. Priddy of the Brazos County Truck Growers Association urges members to attend a Saturday meeting at Presidentcy. Topics include readying cold frames for tomato plants by next week and securing materials and fertilizer for proper care during resetting and after.
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Brazos County
J. B. Priddy
Chamber of Commerce elects officers in adjourned meeting
Directors of the Bryan and Brazos County Chamber of Commerce elected officers for the current year at an adjourned meeting. J. Stanford was chosen president, O. Johnson first vice president, Dr. Walton second vice president, N. Lockford treasurer, W. McCullough secretary. Total of officers re elected unanimously with salary increase for McCullough.
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J. K. Stanford
O. S. Johnson
Bryan and Brazos County
Stanford
W Barron
A. M. Waldrop
Johahon
W. C. Mitchell
W. K
W. McCullough
Johnson
Tyler Haswell
Travis B. Bryan
George A. Adams
N. B. Allen
F. L. Cavitt
A. B. Connen
Mit Dansby
W. K. Gibbs
W. F. Gelber
Tre Haswell
W. B. Higgs
C. S. Johnson
Jno
M. Lawerence Jr
Oak McKenzie
Ed & Martin
M. Ty Parker
J. E. Stanford
E. E
Will Rogers Critiques Texas Travel and Cow Trade
Will Rogers writes to The Eaglet editor from San Angelo on January 29. He quips about long drives across Texas and remarks that San Angelo sits at the heart of the cattle business but laments poverty among old-timers who are said to be eating their own.
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The
Eaglet
San Angelo
Texas
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