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Newspaper
Del Rio Evening News
Location
Del Rio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1935
Page
1
A string of wry anecdotes and opinions poke at media, writers, and politics. A priest denounced as press darling, a governor vetoing a pension bill, a tale of a jigsaw puzzle linked to suicide, and a host's champagne misadventure spark sharp comments on taste and judgment.
A compendium of quoted passions from Jay Gould’s railroad greed to Lincoln and Napoleon. The piece ponders vanity and drive through historic figures and quotes, noting how each displayed a dominant lifelong fixation. It cites Abraham Lincoln, Bob Ingersoll, Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Louis Agassiz, and a Houston Post joke about bachelors and husbands.
Babson Park Mass June 7 with Supreme Court decisions over NRA and Frazier Lemke act he argues for a coming boom driven by replacement demand in machinery and capital goods railroads building and housing markets and potential growth in air conditioning and prefabricated homes while noting ample credit and low interest rates to support expansion.
Tulane University at New Orleans will mark a full century of achievement in medicine and higher education with events June 8 to June 12. Honorary degrees will be awarded to 13 Americans, 500 degrees conferred, special college exercises, two 18th Century operas, and an exhibit on Mayan civilization. Dr. Geo W. Cox of Del Rio is noted as an alumnus from this region.
George West reports Charles C. Clark was convicted today of slaying Virgil Dobbs and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Hope for the early recovery of Roy Bruce who was injured Wednesday in San Antonio when he fell from a third story building he was working on. A wire from San Antonio to W Lazenby in Del Rio conveyed the sentiment as Mrs Bruce rushed to join him.
RFC chair Jesse H. Jones warned Western Pacific Railroad and the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad to submit early reorganization plans or the RFC will file one with the Interstate Commerce Commission. Western Pacific owes $4,366,000 to the RFC and Denver & Rio Grande Line $8,081,000. The RFC reported $22,353,445 disbursed to industry and $75,948,041 in approved loans.
In London on June 7 Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin accepted the post again from King George after Ramsay MacDonald resigned due to ill health. MacDonald, who had led the government for six years, surrendered his portfolio to the King during an hour long audience and recommended Baldwin as his successor.
A Texas delegation committee led by Hatton Summers Nat Patton and Chas South secured a pledge of federal aid for rural Texas schools from Federal relief administrator Harry Hopkins after initial rejection. Hopkins had previously said Texas would not receive aid but reconsidered after the committee presented new facts.
In Georgetown Delaware Mrs May H Carey 57 and her son Howard 27 were executed by hanging for the slaying of Robert Hitchens over a $2000 life insurance policy. Fog shrouded Sussex County jail as she mounted the scaffold and was pronounced dead at 5 24 pm EST becoming the first woman hanged in Delaware.
Premier Laval forms a government and gains swift support from the Chamber of Deputies within 17 hours to implement a decree saving the franc from devaluation. In Washington the NRA stopgap measure passes 280 to 100 with one hour debate limit as Roosevelt cites anti trust code compliance.
Charles Puwhs of Oxford Nebraska greets his son Her man and grandson Howard after they are rescued from a flood that swept five states. The men kneel beside him as the family of 13 loses nine, with Herman Fuchs and the boy saved after a day in a tree above the swollen river.
Chicago June 7 Alvin Karpis remained the only major fugitive among the public enemies after a sweep that felled most of the old gangs. Joe Fox and Volney Davis were captured, while Bonnie and Clyde and others were killed or jailed. Dillin ger mob members and Capone era figures faced federal penitentiaries or death or capture in scattered arrests.
Parmers began harvesting about 2000 acres of broom corn in Jim Weiss County. Relief rolls are exhausted for field labor and nearly 100 workers have been brought in from San Antonio to work in the fields.
Washington June 7 A letters row reached Rep Maury Maverick’s desk this morning a critic sent a 2000 word broadside targeting the Texan and the President and the New Deal. Maverick drafted a terse reply and filed the long letter as insulting.
The G reaching Weyerhaeuser abduction widens to Montana and San Francisco. Harold J. Nathan, Hoover aide, flew to Tacoma to head the inquiry. John J. Keegan announced Jack Bailey and Herbert Lester Johnstone were sighted Monday in Perma Montana.
Subscribers urged to call Ford News Agency at 607 if The News is not delivered promptly after noon. W. C. Ford leads circulation with C. J. Harrington handling distribution and collections. Subscriptions payable to Mr. Harrington or at 640 South Main Street.
Tokyo reports Japanese forces advancing south of the Great Wall with army authorization to pressure the region. Transports depart from Japanese ports as officials deny direct ties to Chinese policy. China faces fresh demands and a possible time limit for compliance as Japan plans to seize Tientsin and Peiping.
In Havana on June 7, Pedro Herrera Sotolongo the lawyer for Antonio San Miguel a 78 year old railroad magnate was detained by police on undisclosed charges. Sotolongo had said he could not contact the abductors but hoped to reach them later the same day.
In Vinita Oklahoma a nine inch rain over 15 hours swelled Big Cabin and Bull Creeks marooning about 160 motorists and leaving 300 families homeless. Trains stalled on the Frisco main line and damages neared $200 000 as crops and property suffered in the flood.
Brownwood June 7 A. Boenicke near Tricxham western Brown County owns a diverse curio set from the United States Europe and Canada. The trove features deer elk moose and mountain sheep horns plus a locked set of deer horns and nearly 100 ancient coins from 910 B C to 1300 A D. An arrangement of 1100 arrowheads forms the Milky Way with a Texas lone star. Mounted heads include bear leopard coyote mountain lion and deer. Also a turtle shell cradle for 12 children and a leather powder bag from 1884.
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