Revolver Missing in Early Week Robbery Involving Newton Case
Police probe into a $19 robbery at Gunner Street area as suspects Newton and a companion claim the revolver was discarded in a ditch or weeds. The victims, Mr and Mrs C L Morris from Oklahoma, describe tactics used to threaten and steal money while Newton was injured. Investigators search banks and ditches for the weapon amid ongoing inquiries.
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Bt. Newton
Ville Acuna
Learcls
Gunner Street
Scouts Visit Big River Ranch With KE Fawcett Guests
Prominent Del Rio civic and Boy Scout figures hosted Scouts and workers at KE Fawcett’s Devils River ranch to mark his arrival in the region. A 10 mile auto parade carried 15 cars carrying youths and adults to the luncheon and sheep ranch tour. Fawcett planned to share early experiences in the open country from nearly 50 years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scouts
KE. K. Fawcett
Big River Ranch
del Rio
Bi Questa
BF. K. Paureett
Promuerr del Rio Rambhiab
Enthusiiacwe Civic
Boy Scout
Finday
Big Devils River Ranch
Big Pawcett Ranch
Pawcett
Amial Hoon
Fawcett
Salary Reductions Hit Mexican Border Soldiers
Mexican soldiers at the Villa Acuna garrison along the border will see a 23 percent salary cut starting August 1 as part of efforts to reduce the treasury deficit. Consul L. Pena and his assistant also face tied wage reductions, and officials say all government workers from President Rubio downward will be cut.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Villa Acuna
Une
South Republic
L. Pena
Hero
Rubio
Loden breaks jaw on high fly in Clarksdale game
Sledge baseball player W Loden suffered a broken jaw in a Clarksdale game after stumbling for a high fly and taking the ball on the cheek.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarksdale
Miss
F_ W. Loden
Sledge
Del Rio Woman Strengthens Claim to Wells Title in Yates Pool
The Supreme Court granted a writ of error in Mrs. Ruby Holmes of Del Rio vebra Ge. Yates, extending a long appeal over the title to nine producing oil wells in the Yates Pool valued at $4,000,009, after prior losses in Pecos County and El Paso courts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
del Rio
Yates Pool
Supreme Court
Austin
Ruby Holmes
Torneys
Sat
Yates
Truck Driver Held After Girl Killed In Oklahoma Crash
Sulphur Oklahoma July 24 W M Richey formerly of Kilgore Texas faced possible murder charges after the death of Iva Stimson 17 and serious injuries to sisters Nellie 21 and Lola 19. He was alleged to be the truck driver who side swiped a bride railing while hitch hiking from Avery Texas to Enid Oklahoma riding on the side of the vehicle. The driver escaped after the mishap.
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Okla
W. M. Richey
Kilgore
Texas
Iva Stimson
Nellie
Lola
Richey
Avery
Enid
Berry plant grows from elm tree in Cornish streets
A strawberry plant is growing from the crotch of an elm tree at Main and Cumberland Streets in Cornish Maine, eight feet above the ground.
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Cornish
Main and
Cumberland Streets
Urge Citizens to Aid in War on Mosquitoes
City health officials appeal to Del Rio residents to help eliminate mosquito breeding sites after recent rains. They report limited cooperation from Southern Pacific on draining a stagnant pool, though track weeds are trimmed. Citizens are urged to drain standing water and report faulty cesspools and drainage while Joe Bridge leads the mosquito fight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
del Rio
B. F. Orr
Southern Pacific Railroad
Joe Bridge
Woman artist turns lifesaver at Lake
Miss Elizabeth B. Roosa, painting a Delaware Lake view at the University of Buffalo, heard cries for help as two small boys fell from a canoe. She carried one boy to safety and aided in rescuing the other before returning to her landscape.
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Buffalo, N. Y
Elizabeth B. Roosa
University of Buffalo
Roosa
Delaware Lake
OM Refiner Hints Texans Been Cheated
East Texas oil valued higher than West Texas and Pennsylvania, KR Holmes says while testifying to Senate oil investigators. He denied East Texas oil is more valuable and admitted paying up to 50 cents a barrel for crude offered at 10 cents. Farish of Humble Oil followed as a witness.
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Austin
West Texas
KR. C. Holmes
Texas Company
Senate
Thomas Pollard
Holmes
East Texas
Pennsylvania
Islet
Mexico Tightens Entry Rules for Investors and Foreign Visitors
Mexican authorities in Del Rio announce a new 60 day decree requiring prospective investors and entrants to show at least 10 000 pisos for entering the South Republic. Immigration officials are told to tighten existing requirements as repatriation and deportations influence policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Republic
del Rio
Mexico
United States
Graf Zep Starts on Trip to North Pole
Graf Zeppelin began its polar voyage from Friedrichshafen to the pole with a first leg to Berlin. The airship departed at 9:50 am and arrived at 6:30 pm marking the voyage's initial daring stage since the previous world circumnavigation two years earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Graf Zep
North Pole
Friedrichshafen
Germany
Initiative petitions filed to appeal state prohibition laws
Two preliminary petitions for an initiative measure to appeal state prohibition laws have been filed with the Secretary of State in Salem Oregon. Petitions must gather at least 17 088 signatures by July 3 1932 to qualify for the ballot.
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Salem
Ore. U
Secretary of State
Forest Fire Sweeps Western Forests Threatening Livestock
Mountains blaze across Montana Idaho and Wyoming as hundreds of fires burn thousands of acres. An army of 2000 men fights the flames and more reinforcements are asked for. Officials consider drafting unemployed to aid in battle against the inferno.
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Montana
Idaho
Steel Stairways Being Installed For Courthouse
Val Verde County courthouse workers install steel stairways replacing wooden ones as remodeling continues. Dixie Stewart Dunn the district clerk will return to her second floor offices next week, while W A Hougpkins the county clerk plans to move back after vault and storage room updates. Electric lighting and fans remain to be addressed after reconstructions and painting are finished.
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Val Verde County
Dixie Stewart Dunn
W. A. Hougpkins
Lost Memory man dies after car crash in Texas
Thomas Scott Goolsby, 25, famed for a four year loss of memory after a Georgia slugging, died in a Marshall hospital from complications after a July 14 automobile crash in which Cecil Teague, a hotel clerk, was killed. Goolsby could not recognize his parents except briefly after the crash.
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Marshall
Texas
U.P
Thomas Scott Goolsby
Goolsby
Georgia
Cecil Teague
Mule Catches Catfish While Taking Drink
In Hickory Flat Mississippi James Mannon was watering a mule when the animal sneezed and expelled a ten pound catfish. Mannon seized the fish and brought it home for supper.
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Mule
Hickory Flat
Miss
James Mannon
Hell Creek
Mannon
Englishman Becomes Buddhist Monk in Siam Temple
Englishman George Hutchesson aged 24 drew attention in Bangkok after voluntarily joining a Buddhist monastery. Shaved head and gold and white robe mark his ordination at Wat Rajapradith where he is given the name Phra Akkappa Sanno and may retire after four months. He must beg for his one daily meal like Siamese priests.
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George Hutchesson
Bangkok
Siam
Wat Rajapradith
Hutchesson
Phra Akkappa Sanno
Money experts map plans for German relief
Statesmen of seven nations traveled to London after talks yielding a temporary German financial relief. Debts of the program await further work by experts as cabinets decide limits of their governments’ support. They will advise how Hoover’s international debt holiday could be implemented for a year without upsetting budgets.
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London
England
Germany
Hoover
Pena Drawing to Be Used in Magazines
Lisandro Pena Jr son of the Mexican consul hero has won recognition for his art. The University of Texas student will have a drawing published in Pencil Point in the August issue after honorable mention and half credit at New York salons.
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Pena
Lisandro Pena Jr
University of Texas
del Rio
New York City
Ex Rangers Meet in Christoval Plans Monuments and Honors
Ex rangers finished Friday in Christoval with reports on resolutions and memoirs committees, officers elected including W W Lewis and A B Coffer, and monuments discussed with a $50 000 to $75 000 price tag. The gathering drew 180 barbecue participants and guests from five states.
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Rangers
Christoval
W. W. Sterling
The
W. W. Lewis
Menard
A. B. Coffer
Austin
George Black
Comanche
John Pope Anson
C M. Grady
Brownwood
Ruby Green Smith
Odessa
A. L. McCoy
San Saba
L. T. Arnold
Rising
Live Oaks
Cedars
J. L. Rehm
Rockwood
Captain Light Townsend
del Rio
Mr. Rehm
New gold vein found near Shoup mining town
Miners report an eight foot quartz vein near Shoup with gold valued at 87.30 per ton and adjacent pyrite yielding 20 per ton. The discovery rekindles the historic mining community’s prominence.
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Salmon
Ida
Martial law blocks Red River toll bridge approach
Oklahoma guards patrol the Durant Denison toll bridge area after Gov Murray proclaims martial law over the approach. No one may use the bridge while Texas Rangers guard the free bridge end and the Red River Bridge Company seeks a federal injunction against enforcement. A 32 man militia contingent arrived, and private guards protect the toll bridge amid fears of dynamiting by public anger.
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Durant
Okla
Oklahoma
Red River
Durant-Denison
W. H. Murray
Texas Rangers
Texas
Ross Sterling
Murray
Red River Bridge Company
Senate bill to open Texas Tree bridge across Red River route
The House state affairs committee approved a bill by Senator Jake Loy to open the Denison Durant highway bridge across the Red River. Loy says passage is likely today, though a remote chance exists the bill could pass and allow the free bridge opening. The measure lets the toll bridge company sue the State for alleged contract payments if a bridge firm seeks dissolution of the Federal injunction closing the free bridge.
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Austin
U.P
Senate Bil
Red River
Denison-Durant
House
Jake Loy
State tax preserves Del Rio school funding level
The State Board of Education approved a $1 750 per capita scholastic grant to Del Rio and other districts, masking fears the per student aid would drop to $14. The three cent per package cigarette tax plus a new aid fund ensure the funds reach schools based on enrollment as stated by B M N Marrs.
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State Board of Education
Austin
del Rio
Studert
B. M. N. Marrs
Weather Summary for Del Rio and Vicinity
Partly cloudy conditions remain tonight with a Saturday outlook. Yesterday’s high reached 91 degrees and the low 73, with this morning recorded at 72. West Texas reports partly cloudy skies and unsettled temperatures into the weekend.
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del Rio
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