Texas Still Wars On Hot Oil Racket
Texas battles a four year old hot oil rebellion with state rules and court fights. Pro ration began in 1927 after the Yates field discovery and spread to eastern Texas with new laws, manifests, and confiscation powers. Intricate enforcement and tactics like concealed pipelines persist as more than 16,000 wells face strict daily limits.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
Yates
Pecos County
Gladwater
Ross S. Sterling
Homestead Developments Face Setbacks in New Deal Projects
Detroit reports two federal subsistence homestead efforts falter as a third plan begins. Senator James Couzens funds a Detroit area colonization project arguing market access is essential for homesteaders to sell produce. experts predict the Alaska Matanuska colony will fail due to isolation. Michigan’s 150 families will form a cooperative colony with part-time factory work to supplement farming.
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Charles Grenham
International Illustrated News
Detroit
James Couzens
Michigan
Automobile Center
Couzens
Matanuska
Alaska
Michigan colony plan may absorb 20 million in federal dollars
The federal homestead project faces a potential write off of about 20 million dollars as it seeks to attract industry near colonies. The scheme would settle indigent families on plots with homes, paid over thirty years through farm produce and part time work. Senator Couzens contributed 550000 to create a 1000 acre colony in Oakland county near Pontiac, supplemented by a 300000 federal grant.
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Michigan
United States
Department of Agriculture
Senator Couzens
Oakland County
Pontiac
Girl Hitch-Hiker Offers Four Don’ts For Rides
Miss Shirley Williams outlines hitch hiking rules in Tucson. She advises against thumb rides and night travel, never ride in trucks or freight trains, and not to accept rides under 100 miles. Williams averages over 400 miles daily and has crossed the country four times with a Paramount contract when she reaches Hollywood.
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Tucson
Ariz
Shirley Williams
Paramount
Hollywood
Bison Sighted Near Kennewick In Wild Countryside
Inhabitants of the Rattlesnake Hills west of Kennewick Washington spotted a large bison in the yard of J H Mann. The animal eluded capture and wandered into rugged country.
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Kennewick, Wash
Rattlesnake Hills
Here
J. H. Mann
Germany Plans Massive Naval Expansion In 1935 36 Program
Germany aims to build 28 U boats two battleships two cruisers and 16 destroyers under the 1935 36 plan officials say the fleet could grow by about 345 595 tons to reach the London accord limits while two new battleships are already under construction the Graf Spree pocket battleship will be commissioned next year and aircraft carriers may appear on the schedule Germanys navy retrains officers and plans a 12 year enlistment baseline now four years after the 1918 revolution the fleet totals about 140 000 tons with 15 000 personnel and remains focused on new submarines and larger capital ships in Kiel and Wilhelmshaven.
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Berlin
Germany
Navy Department
Scapa Flow
London
Graf Spree
Hitler
Herman Goering
Army
Kiel
Wilhelmshaven
Soviet Parachute Jumper Broadcasts His Descent
Comrade Dachserhof, a Soviet parachute jumper, descended 2 600 feet at a local airport while an ultra short wave transmitter on his belt a microphone on his helmet and an antenna in his suit carried his progress to spectators. His voice spoke through a large loudspeaker at the field.
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Moscow
U.S.S.R
Dachserhof
Herman Forsberger Arrested for Scrap Lead Theft
Casper police charged Herman Forsberger with stealing $1 worth of scrap lead from a warehouse. They warned him that the containers once held nitro glycerine, making his break in a life threatening peril and his escape a narrow one.
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Casper, Wyo
INS
Herman Forsberger
Calif couple funds trip with 12 thousand pennies
Mr and Mrs George R Swalley of Glendale California saved 12207 pennies weighing 100 points to finance a visit to their former home in Shenandoah Iowa The unusual voyage shows how the pair literally saved their way home using their coins for travel funds.
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Shenandoah, Ia
INS
George R. Swalley
Glendale
Calif
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Cittizens
Michigan Colony
E. L. Murdock
Champaign, Ill
Champaign News- Gazette
News-Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Champaign
the Gazette
Electrolux
Fae
Kid
Sie
Muy
THE
Cedar Rapids Gas Company
Third Street
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