11 May 1935
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Newspaper
Del Rio Evening News
Location
Del Rio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1935
Page
1
The roundup touches Spring field Missouri legal rites, love and class satire, pacific war secrecy, a famous writer’s view on students’ futures, Prickly Pear tests grades, veteran benefits left unfulfilled, and a veteran’s death prompting memory of past promises to soldiers.
The author recalls a first Mother's Day spent at a humble frontier cabin with a hill, a spring, and a flower crowned mother. Decades of memory attach value to a life of virtue as the finest tribute, surpassing poems or monuments, whether mother still lives or rests in eternity.
Wool growers, warehousemen and dealers discuss a proposed amendment to the AAA creating a wool administrator appointed by the secretary of agriculture. The plan would regulate wool and mohair with licensing for warehouses and a shift toward grower control, triggering intense debate over government regulation versus private handling. The measure, sponsored by the National Wool Growers Association, awaits House passage and Senate consideration next week.
In Tokyo on May 11 a U S naval lieutenant Gates the retired officer held on maritime law charges and suspected of espionage was freed after paying a 57 dollar fine. Companions Gene Rubin and a Russian were freed on similar fines after landing from a German ketch on Formosa's North coast.
Representatives of four Balkan states reached a decision to allow re arming Bulgaria and Hungary. The matter was disclosed by an authoritative source in Bucharest on May 11 indicating a potential shift in regional defense policy and alliance considerations.
Sheriff Alfred Klaerner of Fredericksburg went to Del Rio to arrest a San Angelo man charged with stealing a coupe from a Fredericksburg physician on May 1. The suspect was apprehended at the International Bridge by customs officials and later taken to Fredericksburg from Val Verde County jail with the car owner and Sheriff Young of Rock Springs present.
The 44th regular session winds toward adjournment as both Houses adopt departmental and educational appropriations. The departmental bill totals 13,134,000 for the next biennium, up 13 percent, and the educational budget reaches 10,786,000, up 15 percent. The House rejects a driver license bill conference report for a second time. The Senate had adopted it earlier. the Senate also passed the fishing and hunting license bill 13 to 12.
Jackson Shepard LeRoy Potter and Bill Ward were in a car that overturned eight miles west of Del Rio on Devil's River highway Friday night. Shepard suffered a possible broken wrist Potter had a severe arm gash and Ward escaped uninjured. A. J. Shepard said his son lost control of the fast car.
President Roosevelt left the White House with congressional leaders for a Blue Ridge fishing trip. He planned an overnight stay as discussions with Garner Burns Robinson Harrison focused on a possible veto of the Patmag cash bonus bill during the outing.
American Legion members circulated a petition in Del Rio on Saturday asking President Franklin D. Roosevelt not to veto the Patman bonus bill. The petition was offered in the business district Saturday morning and the committee planned to send it to Washington that afternoon.
Washington reports March cash income from farm product sales at 416 million dollars, up from February and 1934 levels. The seasonally adjusted index sits slightly below last year despite higher actual income due to commodity seasonal adjustments.
In Memphis a payroll robbery at Anderson-Tully Company netted about $4000. Less than an hour after the theft police shot one bandit in the left arm and captured another, as shotgun fire halted their escape through the streets. The captured man is identified as F. C. Cutcher.
Twenty Bahaman Negroes adrift for two weeks in a disabled motor launch were rescued today by the sea train New York en route to Havana. They were picked up 100 miles off shore and reported in good condition after the ordeal.
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station researchers announce isolation of locoine, the toxic principle in loco weed that causes locoism in horses and cattle. Dr. G Fraps and E Carlyle led chemical separations, with Dr. Frank Mathews at Alpine Laboratory. findings show varying susceptibility among horses, cattle, and other livestock and that locoine is not excreted in milk.
Producers Wool and Mohair Company sold 30 000 pounds of Texas short wool Friday for 20 3/4 cents a pound. Sumner Willis represented Walter Marston of Boston in the sale with C B Dutch Wardlaw making the announcement.
Plans for an oil test in South Central Martin County are under way by operators P F Dickenson and Virgil King of Tulsa Oklahoma. Headquarters are being set up in Lamesa. A large land block has been secured and a location has not yet been decided.
Partly cloudy to unsettled tonight and Sunday. Yesterday’s high reached 90 and the low fell to 64. This morning’s minimum was 70.
A light cool down is reported across West and East Texas with slightly cooler conditions expected in the Panhandle region on Sunday. The forecast notes cooler air lingering through the day with modest temperature drops.
Dennis Chavez, former Democratic representative, appointed by Governor Clyde Tingley to fill the late Senator Bronson Cutting seat. The appointment lasts until next year’s election. The move follows Cutting’s fatal May 8 airplane crash and Chavez’s earlier contest against Cutting.
The wool market remains active with sales above normal and prices largely steady. Western regions show firmer demand than the seaboard, Nevada and nearby states report good activity, while foreign markets edge higher. Mohair also stays steady as quoted in Texas and domestic grades fluctuate with season.
In Boston May 1 a brisk wool trade centered on finer Western wools with steady rates for medium and low grades. Medium Ohio fleeces were scarce, with 56s and 48s to 50s blood wools trading around 26c grease and 23( to 23.5c for other grades. In London May 11 buyers offered 10 445 bales with 8 446 sold as crossbreds found steady demand from Germany and the home market while merinos moved but at firmer prices.
President Roosevelt established a rural electrification administration under the works relief program with an initial $75,000 appropriation to organize the division. Morris L. Cooke of Philadelphia is named to head the division, though the specific appointee will be announced.
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