Spain seeks another premier amid Texas idle statesmen
A column notes Spain may choose a new premier as idle Texas statesmen are available. The paper highlights a mysterious young man who burns buildings and claims spirits whispered after drinking. Authorities discuss his status, while two San Antonio men are jailed for mail misuse in the send a dime craze. The Legislature schedules an August 24 election on repealing the hard liquor law, with a November 1936 vote to decide its fate and rules from August 1935 to November 1936.
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San Antonio
Texas
The Dime Racket Tvokes Columnists in Valley Debates
A Brownsville Herald opinion notes the Send a Dime scheme fails as a pyramid racket. It explains how 15,000 chains would be needed to return $1,500 to the first sender and shows saturation across millions of potential participants. The piece compares the scheme to the Drake Estate and cites expository quips of Solomon.
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Drake
Brownsville
Small Crowd Attends Power Plant Meeting
Brownwood May 4 Fewer than 50 persons attended a mass meeting called by Mayor Manager W H Thompson to discuss plans for a municipal power and light plant. Thompson said the matter would be dropped and he would devote his time to other duties of his offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brownwood
W. H. Thompson
Thompson
Boulder 600 Tons Blasted From Devil's River Cliff
A rock estimated at 600 tons was dynamited from a cliff above the Southern Pacific Railway tracks near Devil's River. The blast occurred during a lull in train traffic. A self propelled digger and workers cleared the tracks while Civil Engineer J H Knowles noted quarterly rock inspections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Pacific Railway
Devil’s River
J. M. Corley
J. H. Knowles
Southern Pacific
General Office
Devil's River Country
E C Thumm Dies of Heart Attack in Villa Acuna
E C Thumm, 50, died of a heart attack Friday at 5 p m in Villa Acuna. Funeral arrangements are pending through Mexico City to bring the body to the United States. He came to Del Rio years ago with his parents and lived here most of his life. Survivors include his widow Ella Thumm, two sons E C Thumm Jr and Thomas, a brother Ben F Thumm of Florence Arizona, and two sisters Mrs C A Jackson and Mrs T N McFarland, both of Del Rio.
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E. C. Thumm
Villa Acuna
Mexico City
United States
Mexico
Thumm
del Rio
F. C. Thumm
Ella Thumm
E. C. Thumm Jr
Thomas Thumm
Ben F. Thumm
Florence
Ariz
C. A. Jackson
T. N. McFarland
Rev Forrester to Preach First Sermon at Del Rio Church
The Rev. G. Robert Forrester, newly arrived from Coleman, will deliver his first sermon at the Del Rio First Christian Church this Sunday. Before leaving Coleman he was honored by several local organizations.
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Rev. Forrester
G. Robert Forrester
First Christian Church
Coleman
del Rio
Forrester
Cameron Adds City Park to Texas Beauty Spots
Cameron in Milam County plans Wilson-Ledbetter Park as a state beauty spot by 1936. The 30-acre park includes a five-acre lake and uses petrified wood rock and oak logs to build civic structures and rip-rap creeks. Land was ceded years earlier and work began under the Civil Works Administration in December 1933.
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Cameron
Milam County
Texas
Civil Works’ Administration
Re Garrisoning Fort D A Russell And Big Bend Park Plans
The Senate has passed the Sheppard Connally bill to establish Big Bend National Park in Brewster and Presidio counties Texas with land acquisition to follow. Congress may back plans to reoccupy Fort D A Russell at Marfa and create a vast Rio Grande park, backing a five year campaign by Rep Ewing Thomason.
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Fort
D. A. Russell
International Park
Big Bend
Washington
Senate
Big Bend National Park
Brewster
Presidio
Texas
West Texas
Ewing R. Thomason
Paso
War Department
Marfa
United States
Congress
Rio Grande
Fort Russell
Thomason
Pat Hurley
Wyoming
Fort Brown
Fort Clark
Fort McIntosh
Camp Knox
Kentucky
Klea
L. Ickes
Interior Department
Mexico
House
State of
Norris to Hold Own Meeting As Southern Baptists Convene
Memphis report says Rev. J. Frank Norris, a 57 year old Fort Worth and Detroit Baptist pastor, will hold his own meeting in Memphis during the Southern Baptist Convention. Norris plans to arrive by airplane from Detroit and conduct sessions May 15 to May 19 while the convention meets.
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Norris
Southern Baptists
Memphis
Tenn
J. Frank Norris
Fort. Worth
Southern Baptist Convention
Detroit
Fort Worth
Celebration Planned for Shelby County Concrete Highway
Timpson hosts a May 11 celebration for the completion of Shelby County’s first concrete highway. A 10 mile section of Highway No. 35 between Timpson and Tenaha marks the Houston Shreveport airline route milestone.
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Timpson
Shelby County
Tenaha
Son Defends Father in Slaying Case Witness Testimony
Gerald Darden, 12, testified as a state witness in the murder trial of 8S. P. Darden. He said he woke to find Jackie Glenn, 8, near his mother's bed with a shotgun in his hands. Gerald stated his father had been sleeping with him and both left the bed. He described Jackie as often restless and sleepwalking.
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Greenville
Gerald Darden
Jackie Glenn
Caddo Mills
Gerald
P. Darden
Jackie
Favorable Factors Boost Trade in Week Review
Dun and Bradstreet reports favorable factors dominated trade developments last week with widened industrial operations, more mining and building activity, and stronger consumer demand. Spring buying may extend into May as deferred April purchases release, boosting April sales 4 to 12 percent year over year.
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New York
Dun & Bradstreet
Trade Review
Kansans Die in Texas Mishap Near Falfurrias
Four prominent Kansans were killed and two others severely injured in a collision nine miles south of Falfurrias Texas. The dead are J. A. Sherar Mullinville Kan Charles Canner Mullinville Kan Inman Sneed Haviland Kan and R F Burnett Mullinville Kan The injured include C C Felts Houston freight truck driver and O A Savage address unknown. Savage and a woman stopped to fix a tire when a freight truck trying to pass struck their car.
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Falfurrias
Here
J. A. Sherar
First State Bank of
Mullinville
Kan
Charles Canner
Inman Sneed
Haviland
R. F. Burnett
C. C. Felts
Houston
O. A. Savage
Savage
Kansas
Plans Advocated To Reduce Number Of Mental Cases
Austin May 4 The board of control seeks curb on eleemosynary population by early treatment and curative campaigns. Overcrowded insane hospitals and jail placements hinder recovery. Debate over sterilization fades. Wallace endorses a 90 day treatment path for early insanity entry without jury trial, while Mrs. Helen Moore pushes a constitutional amendment to admit such patients to state institutions.
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Austin
Board of Control
John F. Wallace
Helen Moore
Texas City
Fifty Witnesses To Leave Del Rio For Latta Murder Trial
About fifty witnesses will depart Del Rio on Sunday for Bandera to testify in the Lawrence Latta murder trial slated for Monday. Latta’s Bandera trial previously ended in a mistrial after the jury failed to reach a verdict on November 10, 1934.
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del Rio
Bandera
Lawrence Latta
Latta
John M Mullican Jr Advocates Tobacco Habit
A short item notes John M Mullican Jr of McAlester Oklahoma praising tobacco use from infancy. The piece frames his mother’s view and mentions his father’s pipe and a playful early start with smoking.
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John M. Mullican, Jr
Hare
John
Dallas Postmaster Warns Of Dime Chain Letters
Dallas officials report the mail box at the post office swelling with envelopes containing dimes as the Denver bound chain letter craze spreads. Postmaster W. Bruce Luna says Barnum’s theory holds but the one a minute estimate was too low. The rush suggests Colorado originators may profit while many Dallas residents lose money.
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Dallas
Barnum
W. Bruce Luna
Denver
Colorado City
Attack on Ometepec Sparks Mexican City Sacks
Excelsior dispatch reports a band of 10 men sacked the town of Ometepec Guerrero killing and wounding several residents. Raiders burned and disrupted communications before federal troops approached and halted the raid.
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Mexico City
Excelsior
Ometepec
Guerrero
Resolution Filed To Probe McDonald Racing Fund
A resolution to investigate charges of irregularities in Agriculture Commissioner J E McDonalds management of the jack and stallion racing fund was filed with Speaker Coke Stevenson by Rep E E Hunter. The inquiry would use statements from State Auditor George Simpson and reports of the House investigation committee. McDonald said he had nothing to conceal and welcomed the probe.
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Austin
Agriculture
J. E. McDonald
Coke Stevenson
House of Representatives
E. E. Hunter
Cleburne
George Simpson
House Investigation Committee
McDonald
Weather Snap: Drenching Storm Brings Mixed Rain Across Counties
A severe electrical storm dropped hail and rain across several towns. Leake y reported three inches, Brackettville 1.5 inches, Rocksprings one inch, and Uvalde up to 0.75 inches with lighter totals elsewhere. Alpine saw light snows in southeastern New Mexico as temperatures fell to 50 degrees.
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Leakey
Alpine
New Mexico
Sanderson
Comstock
Pandale
Juno
del Rio
Brackettville
Albert Sargeant
Spofford
Eagle Pass
Camp Wood
Sabinal
San Antonio
Snow Falls in Panhandle as Rain Covers Texas
Snow falls steadily in the Panhandle with cold rain in most of Texas. Tahoka reports snow and Plainview sees sleet at freezing temps. South Texas storms bring damage. The Guadalupe River runs 20 feet above normal at Cuero with four inches of rain recorded there.
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Panhandle
Dallas
Texas
Tahoka
Plainview
South Texas
Guadalupe River
Cuero
Texas Leads In New U S Savings And Loan Units
Washington May 4 The Federal Home Loan bank board said Texas organized 60 new Federal Savings and Loan associations in 16 months and converted 12 old building and loan associations with assets totaling 7 475 318 to federal savings institutions Texas now has federal associations operating in Dallas El Paso Amarillo Beaumont Crockett Greenville Paris Texarkana and Waco with insurance coverage up to 5000 per shareholder through the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
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Washington
Texas
Federal Home Loan Bank Board
Federal Savings and Loan
Dallas
el Paso
Amarillo
Beaumont
Crockett
Greenville
Paris
Texarkana
Waco
Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
Del Rio Area Weather Forecast Update
Cloudy conditions with likely light rain tonight in Del Rio and surrounding areas. Sunday remains cloudy and mild with a slight warming trend. Yesterday’s high reached 175 with a low of 63. current morning low is 50.
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del Rio
Weather patchy snow in North and sultry South tonight
The report notes snow flurries in the North while the South remains cloudy and mild. Tonight should be unsettled with a mix of precipitation and relatively warm temperatures for the period.
East Texas Weather Outlook For Weekend
Weather summary notes chance of rain tonight in East Texas with cooler readings along the south and east coasts. Sunday brings cooler coastal areas, cooler conditions farther east, and warmer temperatures in the northwest portion of the region.
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Donald Young
77Th Field Artillery
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Ickes
William Phillips
Sheppard
Brother
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Racing Fund Probe
Brackett
Mitchel Waldrop Ranch
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