Fleagle Keeps Nerve To Last On Death Trek
Ralph Ficatie the Lamar Bank bandit leader faced execution at the Colorado state penitentiary after a long stand on death row. Governor Aram James declined to intervene as Ficatie and accomplices awaited their fates in a high security setting.
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Canon City
Colo
Ralph Ficatie
Lamar Bank
Wang
State Penitentiary
Witnexars
le Executon
Ie Penitentary
W. J. Aramne
School Hardware Contract Awarded Del Rio
Del Rio Hardware Company awarded contracts to supply hardware for school buildings in Del Rio and Ian Feling. The deal covers two new high schools and additions to other structures with Yale and Towne brands to be furnished for the project as the hardware concern sale advances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
del Rio Concern
Scheol
del Rio
Ian Feling
del Rio Hardware Company
Sale
Yale
Alien Boy Offers Blame for Father's Illegal Entry
A 9 year old alien said he would take all responsibility for their illegal entry. They were arraigned before the United States commissioner Friday morning. They crossed near the Le Grande river under the international bridge with the younger man seeking to work to support both in Villa Acuna, Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
International Bridge
Mexico
Villa Acuna
Feder
Celys Recover After Car Overturn Near Van Horn
H M Cely horticultural inspector and Mrs Cely were injured when their car overturned above Van Horn while returning from Carlsbad New Mexico. They suffered minor injuries as the vehicle hit loose gravel after being passed by another car.
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H. M. Cely
Government
Mrs. Cely
Abney
Carlsbad
N. M
van Horn
Cely
Police Protection Sought by Woman Accusing Husband
A Pepperville woman said her husband whipped her and sought police protection at the courthouse on Friday. The case involves Levett as the accused, with the department pursuing warrants for Ubetke and Warrett in connection to the alleged assault.
Violence Threats by Nuevo Laredo Workers Union
In Nuevo Laredo posters urged Mexicans to resist American workers joining local establishments. The Employes' Union of Nuevo Laredo warned against employing Americans and cited a 28 percent foreign worker share amid tensions. The menace was expressed by union leaders and tied to presumed Mexican invasion concerns.
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Mexican Bar Union
Mexico
Wie
Viejon
Girl imitates movie scene dies after unsafe prop in Beaumont
In Beaumont on July 110% high school graduate Mary Katherine McMinn fatally harmed herself by placing an unloaded public safety item to her head and posing as in a film scene. Her pallbearers and mother, a nurse on special duty, attended the service as authorities investigate the incident.
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Noaeet
Venars
Cryer
CC. McMinn
Twas Laken
Boy Adventurer Returns Home With Santone Father
A 14 year old boy, armed with a revolver and Bowie knife, traveled to Del Rio with his father RO Vo W Negiey and two brothers before being taken back to San Antonio. Neighbors say he was a standout junior football player in San Antonio.
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Hicehard Negiey
San Antonio
San Antonia
RO Vo W Negiey
Negley
Wicer
Richard
del Rio
Colts
Acuna Music Meet Plans Third Anniversary Observance
The Acuna Music Meet organized by La Union Filarmerica Acuna plans a third anniversary observance in Villa Acuna. The event was to be read aloud at a local theatre, with details uncertain.
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la Union Filarmerica
Peach Thieves Fined in Orchard Fruit Theft Case
Three youths paid $42 for peaches then pleaded guilty to theft of fruit in justice court. They were fined $1 and costs totaling $4 and released. The peaches came from an orchard owned by De BF Orr near 401 East Greenwood, with recurring thefts noted. Authorities arrested them Thursday.
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Yeuthe
Earc
Justice Court
de. BF. Orr
East Greenwood
Charter Sonora Cattle Company Incorporated in Texas
The A. F P. Clarkson Sheep and Cattle Company at Sonora has been incorporated according to information from the Secretary of State in Austin. It aims to raise buy and sell livestock with capital stock of $200,000. Incorporators are A. P. Clarkson M. Clarkson and B. C. Redgrave.
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A. F P. Clarkson Sheep and Cattle Company
Sonora
Austin
Bandits Kill Oil Man After Theft Attack
Galveston on July 11 Joe W. Embry an oil field worker died in a hospital today from injuries received Wednesday when he was beaten shot stabbed and robbed and thrown from a car by two bandits Embry had hired a chauffeur to take him from Galveston On the road the driver picked up a second man Embry was attacked robbed and found next morning able to describe the assailants to police
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Galveston
U.pi
Joe W. Embrey
Embry
Trail of auto thieves leads to burned car
Noville identified as the person who stole a Ford from Dick Martinez in Eagle Pass on Monday night. The burning car was found in a wash along Jeaquite Creek, 35 miles north of Kale Pess. Martinez reported the theft to the sheriff. the driver, said to have been drunk, was believed to have used the car for liquor transport.
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Martie Parity
del Rao Mondas
Keagle Pats
Barie
Sheriffs Department
Texquite Creek
Fish Licenses Spur Visitor Flow to Mexican Stream
Coahuila reports a surge of fishermen visiting Del Rio and Lisandro Pena as 40 fishing licenses were issued in the first ten days of July. The Mexican consulate can now issue licenses and passports together, with licenses valid for 30 days. Most anglers plan to fish within a 30 mile radius of Villa Acuña.
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Coahuila
del Rio
Lisandro Pena
Villa Acuna
Try Garageman For Violations Of Fire Rules
A Main Street garage operator faces corporation court on Friday for alleged electrical ordinance violations. He pleaded not guilty, claiming ignorance of the permit and inspection requirements. Authorities cited spray paint gear a refrigerator and wiring issues in a renovated building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Main Street
Corporation Court
Pampa Girl Var Hit and Run Driver Victim
Eight year old Margie Arnold of Pampa was passenger in a car struck and overturned by a truck east of Amarillo. The truck driver fled the scene. Mrs. Arnold suffered bruises but survived.
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Pampa
Amarillo
Margie Arnold
Here
Dead Pilot Blamed Not For Bay Crash In Corpus Christi
July 1 Experienced pilots ruled out fault by pilot K Gabbart in a fatal plane crash near Aransas Pass. The six passenger monoplane carried three Kansas City businessmen and three others when flying blind through dense clouds. Witnesses saw an explosion as the wings ripped off and the fuselage plunged onto the salt flats five miles away. Victims named Murat Boyle Raymond Watson Eugene Lynn Roy De Lane and K B Gabbart.
Kingsford Smith Aims Record Australian Hop From England
Captain Kingsford Smith announces plans to fly solo from England to Australia in a bid to break the current record. He recently completed a world voyage aboard the Southern Cross, with a trans Atlantic leg from Ireland to the U S mainland.
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Kingsford-Smith
England
Los Angeles
Solo
Lgland
Australia
Chase Kingsford-Smith
Atlantic
Ireland
Fodder Thief Foiled by Sleeping Night Watchman
A lone thief approached a fodder stack at a railway warehouse about 2 am Friday but fled after night watchman Pomn Flores woke from the top of the bales. Flores, recently hired by several warehouse firms and irrigation concerns to patrol the track area, scared away the intruder driving a lights off car away.
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Pomn Flores
Flores
Life Sentence Given Boy for Holdup Murder
WICHUTA Kans July EL Jimmy Lee a 16 year old Oklahoma City youth who confessed to killing Paul Walker during a holdup in Wichuta pleaded guilty to first degree murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He will likely be taken to the state prison tonight. Thurlow Wilhite Lee s companion in the crime has expressed his desire to also plead guilty.
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Wichuta
Kans
Jimmy Lee
Oklahoma City
Paul Walker
Thurlow Wilhite
Lee
Hyde and Legge Press Panhandle Wheat Acreage Cut
Amarillo hosts Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde and Federal Farm Board chairman Alexander Legge today. They are to urge reductions in Panhandle wheat acreage and discussed the topic after arriving here last night.
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Hyde
Legge
Panhandle
Amarillo
Arthur M. Hyde
Agriculture
Alexander Legge
Federal Farm Board
Marriage License Notices Filed for Several Couples
Notices of intention to marry were filed in the county clerk's office by L. R. Shields and Myrtle Stevens, and by Tomas Matios and Mercedes Salazar.
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L. R. Shields
Myrtle Stevens
Tomas Matios
Mercedes Salazar
El Pasoan Touts Wet Platform in Del Rio Campaign
M L Burkhead tours Del Rio advocating repeal or modification of the 18th amendment and the Volstead act. He campaigns on a wet platform with tariff support for West Texas products and unity with opponents, urging voters to decide at the July 26 ballot.
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B. E
Pat) Murphy
R & Thomason
West Texas
M. L Burkhead
del Rio
Burkhead
West
Texas
Claude Hudspeth
Congress
Hudspeth
Burkhead in Del Rio Campaign Stop for Texas House Seat
M. L. Burkhead, El Paso automobile dealer and repeal advocate, visited Del Rio in his bid to succeed Cr. Hunspeth in the Democratic primary. He opposes Mayor R. E. Thomason of El Paso and E. F Pat Murphy of San Angelo. Burkhead is billed as the only Wet in the race as of July 26.
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M. L. Burkhead
del Rio
Cr. Hunspeth
Burkhead
el Paso
R. E Thomason
E. F
Pat) Murphy
San Angelo
Ranger Opens Own Probe Of Swanger Death
Huntsville July 1. Despite a coroner verdict of accidental death special Ranger Homer T Glover said he expected an arrest today in the death of Earl Swanger a district attorney candidate killed Wednesday. Swanger was found in his car off the road between Trinity and Huntville with three stab wounds. A woman confessed riding with Swanger that night saying she left him alive and boarded another car after an argument. The woman said Swanger had been drinking and Glover went to Trinity to question her again.
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Huntsville
Homer T. Glover
Earl Swaine
Swanger
Trinity
Huntville
Swaure
Glover
Kincaid Buys 64 Sections Of Harris Ranch In Texas
Rankin July 11 T A Kincaid buys 64 sections of Ralph Harris pasture between McCamey and Rankin bringing his holdings to about 175 sections. He will take possession July 15 of 300 cows and calves at 70 dollars each, plus dry cows and two year old heifers at 50 dollars. Mont Noelke buys the remaining 19 sections. Kincaid leads the Sheep and Goat Raisers Association of Texas.
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Kincaid
The
Sheep and Goat Raisers’ Association of Texas
Ed Norfleet Dies In Angelo Wreck
Ed Norfleet, 39, a Colorado City plumbing contractor, died in San Angelo when his light truck overturned after a Rio Grande turnoff. He was pinned beneath the wreckage and pronounced dead after the crash occurred about 3 30 yesterday afternoon.
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San Angelo
Ed Norfleet
Colorado City
Rio Grande
First Street
Divorce Suit Filed by Manuel Romo Against Petra Romo
Manuel Romo filed for divorce from Petra R. de Romo in district court on Friday alleging abandonment as the grounds.
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Manuel Romo
Petra R. de Romo
Lea predicts ten percent rise in wool prices by fall
J M Lea Texas agent for co operative selling agents returns from the Arizona wool growers meeting and forecasts a 10 per cent market rise by October and November. He notes Boston prices are below value due to dealer dumping but foreign imports are light and ad campaigns by sheepmen show promise. The cooperative analyzes world wool markets to help growers secure full value for their clip.
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J. M. Lea
Texas
Co-Operative
San Angelo
Arizona Wool Growers Meeting
Boston
Becaus
Arizona
West
London
Lea
Appendix Stroke Proves Fatal to Ophelia Galinda
Ophelia Galinda, 24, of San Felipe, died at 4 a.m. after a ruptured appendix led to surgery. She attended Central Grammar and high school. Survived by mother Mrs Virginia Garcia de a, sister Mrs Helen Miranda, and brother Gavina Galina. Funeral services set for Saturday at 1 a.m. from the family home, Diaz Undertaking Co. in charge.
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Ophelia Galinda
Daughef
Virginia Garcia Dea
Miss Galinda
Central Grammar School
Helen Miranda
Gavina Galina
San Felipe
Diaz
Murderer labeled too mean to hang may win parole
CHICAGO, July 11 Henry Morris was deemed "Too mean to hang" by the jury that convicted him 19 years ago of murdering Mrs Stella Dumas. State officials said he may be paroled from Joliet prison soon though the jury urged he never be paroled. Morris killed Dumas after she told him she loved another man.
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Chicago
Henry Morris
Joliet
Morris
Stella Dumas
Del Rio Area Weather Forecast
Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with local showers and cooler in the Panhandle. East Texas remains generally fair and warm tonight and Saturday with varied temperatures.
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Panhandle
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Ralph Picasie
Wenteri Kennel
Bad Baat
Picagie
Howard J. Revvston
George J. Abshier
Beeelit Bend
Jake Fiinghe
Esre
Jake Pieagi
Jake Ted
Kan
Oranch
Marienthal
Coxey’s
Katherine Coves
Jools Comey
Fisheston
Mis Cottey
Ubeit of
Mies
Gatwatin
Levett
Ubetke
Warrett
Santone
Acuna Music Meet
Charter Sonora Cattle Company
A. P. Clarkson
M. & Clarkson
B. C. Redgrave
Joe Embry
Ise
Murat Boyle
Raymond Watson
Eugene Lynn
Roy de Lane
K. B. Gabbart
Watchman
el Pasoan
Hogg
Mills
Thomas Jefferson
Charles H. Spurgeon
Burton M Wheeler
James M Cox
Jefferson
Christ
Caesar
Ranger
Old Harris Ranch
Angelo
East
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