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Newspaper
Del Rio Evening News
Location
Del Rio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1935
Page
1
These comments critique aging businessmen and the NRA style proposals. The writer mocks Longstanding claims of success and questions plans to redirect Mississippi waters, while lampooning political figures and media rhetoric. The piece blends social satire with concerns over policy and national debate.
The Houston Post notes critics mock a belief that women belong at home as John Barrymore plans a yacht cruise with Michael Strange while excluding Dolores Costello. The piece mocks columnist phrases and cites industry gossip about actors and their spouses.
A newspaper excerpt contrasts Bismarck's power with liberalism and cites Tim Meddlin urging stern parental control. It includes Marshall Messenger's remark about fathers enforcing obedience and children adhering to parents' rules, with a warning about later drastic measures.
A Dallas police officer was slightly wounded and a patrol car riddled with holes in a running gunfight with four fleeing desperadoes. The bandits, believed involved in a Cooper Texas burglary last night, escaped westward.
The Moore Park swimming pool will open between April 1 and April 15 due to weather. Clyde O Bry ant has been named custodian and meets board requirements. The pool has fresh paint and will charge five dollar family season tickets, ten cents for over 12s, five cents for 6 to 12, and free for under 6.
New York March 30 large government orders for woolen and worsted fabrics and heavy contracts from automobile manufacturers for upholstery will keep many mills at capacity for months. Yardage enough to run about 60 mills full time for three months has been bought already. The Army opened bids for over 1 000 000 yards of 32 ounce coatings, 2 766 000 yards of 20 ounce worsted suitings, and more than 200 000 blankets, signaling a shift from men s wear fabrics and possible fall style shortages.
Washington reports a downward trend in business failures. NRA division of research and planning notes signs of improvement amid March data. The brief item cites Dashboard indicators and sectoral variation across regions.
Registration figures show motor vehicles numbered 1 468 through Friday in the office of Tax Collector Lyle S Almond. The tally includes 1 154 passenger cars 194 commercial trucks and 120 farm trucks. The office will stay open at night on Monday to accommodate last day registrants, closing only from 5 30 to 6 30 P m for supper.
Hollywood police said five shots were fired today at the apartment of actor Lee Tracy who pleaded guilty to drunkenness. Tracy paid a fine of 100 dollars.
Washington March 30 pact keeps wage and hour contracts after April 1 as soft coal industry and United Mine Workers accept NRA proposal. Nearly half a million miners avoid strike action.
The AP reports Taylor County Wisconsin on a pre New Deal production schedule with events at Browning and Chelsea farms. Six ewes birthed quadruplet and triplet lambs plus four twin sets, a 16 pig litter at Hadenfeldt, and triplet bull calves at Walter Pagel’s Chelsea farm.
A hotel fire in Pachuta Mississippi on March 30 ends with one man dead and several others saved thanks to a train whistle warning. Trains nearby alerted guests and staff, enabling rapid evacuation before flames engulfed parts of the building. Fire crews fought the blaze as smoke and heat hampered rescue efforts.
Carlisle Halbert was acquitted in District Court of murder in the fatal shooting of Dred Green in Sonora on November 5. Halbert testified he acted in self defense after Green reached into his car, claiming threats from Green and family ties to a changed relationship.
San Angelo reports Kenneth Oliver will become manager of the Regional Agricultural Credit Corporation on April 1 replacing L B Horton. Jax Cowden resigns as assistant manager and Horton takes over. Oliver plans to spend time aiding clients in West Texas while cattle loans move from Houston to San Angelo to streamline borrower services.
Mrs. Middlebrook reports from San Antonio that Dr. J. R. Middlebrook, a Del Rio surgeon, withstood an operation at Santa Rosa Infirmary on Saturday morning. The family shared the update with Miss Sarah Downum.
Washington March 30 The comptroller of the currency today issued a call for the condition of national banks.
The banking commissioner issued a call for statements showing the condition of state banks as of March 30 in Austin.
The New York Stock Exchange announced it would seek to suspend Hupp Motor Car Corporation stock and apply to the SEC to strike it from trading after directors forced the committee to consider suspension.
A compact reflection notes that virtue and vice are expressed outwardly through actions while happiness and misery are the rewards. The saying distills a moral cause and effect view from Chinese philosophy.
County Court schedules regular session for April 1 with two new criminal cases on the docket including a swindling charge and a pistol carrying charge against Sergio Gonzalez Jr an official of the sheep shearers union. Gonzalez is held on $200 bond signed by Dr Joe I Sanders and Rudolfo Gutierrez.
Dun and Bradstreet reports a转 revival in US trade as industrial activity rises in spring. Confidence in expansion and new financing returns, Easter sales expected to surpass last year, and retail demand up 3 to 10 percent versus 1934. Stores see 20 to 30 percent gains in some districts with inventories replete.
Yuma Arizona reports 50 000 sheep grazing in the Yuma and Gila valleys during peak season from October to June. Pasturage fees at a penny and a half daily per head bring farmers about 750 dollars per day. Sheep from Arizona New Mexico Texas Colorado Utah and California aid hay markets and provide employment for hundreds led by F S Manifold. Ranchers protest rising pasturage fees as 40 cars of sheep and 10 cars of cattle moved out last week with 28 cars slated for shipment today.
Washington March 30. The Interstate Commerce Commission denied railroads the right to raise freight rates but allowed emergency charges to existing rates. The emergency charges apply to much of the national freight traffic through June 30, 1936.
Sheriff A E Steinmetz urged residents to report burglaries of chickens or household goods immediately. He said the department will do its best to recover stolen items, but action is limited unless losses are reported promptly.
A tri motor 18 passenger plane halted in Del Rio for a one hour refueling on its trip from Hobbs Field California to Guatemala. The aircraft was large enough for a truck to pass beneath its wings, highlighting its substantial wingspan and fuel needs.
Partly cloudy and colder tonight and Sunday. Yesterday's high 73, low 65. This morning 61. South partly cloudy with rain turning to snow in the north. North ends with a cold wave and temperatures 28 to 32 tonight. Sunday colder except in the Panhandle. livestock warnings in the North.
Weather bulletin notes much colder conditions in the West and North with freezing temperatures in the Northwest and North Central regions. Tonight, Sunday will be partly cloudy and significantly colder across East Texas.
Missouri Supreme Court rules Walter McGee must die for the ransom abduction of Mary McElroy daughter of Kansas City manager. The case dated back nearly two years and marks a historic first death sentence for kidnapping in the United States.
Engineers near completion of a nine foot navigation channel on the upper Mississippi from Alma to the Twin Cities. Dams at Alma and Whitman lowered gates as barges and tugs prepare to move April 1 from Dubuque. The project includes flood protection, road raise, and a planned resort boom with bass fishing and fish rearing plans by the U S Bureau of Fisheries in La Crosse.
Roger Gillis and son Walter left Dallas to attend a National Co-Operative Association meeting in Chicago. They expect to be away about ten days and will travel by plane from Dallas.
Agencies report war and peace forces spreading unease over Europe. Ethiopia ends direct talks with Italy and sends a note to the League while Rome seeks conciliation. In Moscow the Russian press hints at seeking U S cooperation to maintain European peace.
Rome March 30. The cabinet orders compulsory possession of gas masks by workers in Italy's strategic industries and urges citizens to learn their use.
In Fort Sam Houston area and west Texas district CCC camps, health and sanitation programs keep typhoid and smallpox cases rare. Captain B R Galbraith reports strict camp site selection, modern sanitation, regular inspections, and co operation with the Texas Health Department. Enrollees receive inoculations and serious epidemics are uncommon.
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