Newspaper reacts to a baby smoking and other oddities
A Brownwood subscriber condemns a photo of a two year old smoking a cigar while the Bulletin defends reporting unusual or unexpected events as news. The column by Prickly Pear jokes about editors, politics, and a printer's past, noting social changes and a note about Del Rio’s current temperance.
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Brownwood Hletin
del News
Doc Barker
Bremer
del Rio
Prickly Pear
Cloudburst Damages Tracks in Lone Texan Flooding
Flood waters from a cloudburst between Longfellow and Dryden at 6 p.m. Tuesday washed away six bridges and hundreds of feet of railroad tracks. By Wednesday afternoon the damage extended as waters receded and crews mobilized from 40 on relief rolls. A San Antonio work train with pile driving gear was to depart Del Rio yard by 4 p.m. Wednesday as trains shift routes and officials expect regular service to resume Thursday.
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Longfellow
Dryden
San Antonio
del Rio
San Angelo
Sanderson
Echoes of columnists amid floods and highway woes
Readers see critics echoing Twain Jefferson and Mussolini while Texas floodwaters disrupt travel. Bridges damaged near Sanderson and Del Rio with high water on Highway 3 and 41. Rio Grande rises to twelve feet. outages affect Sabinal and Sutton County lines.
Rural Texas schools receive $1.5 million allocation
A federal relief boost of about 1.5 million dollars for rural Texas schools was approved by Harry L. Hopkins after sustained advocacy by Governor James V. Allred and lawmakers including Charles L. South Hatton Summers and Nat Patton. The final distribution will be based on each district's aggregate needs.
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Chas. L. South
del Rio
James V. Allred
Texas
Harry L. Hopkins
Washington
Hopkins
Allred
Hatton Summers
Nat Patton
Charles L. South
Okeh
Hugh S. Johnson Returns to Code Regulation Work
Hugh S. Johnson, first NRA administrator, resumes duty as a presidential advisor. He plans a tentative code program to continue industry regulation under fair practices codes and was invited to the White House to discuss the Supreme Court ruling.
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New York
Hugh S. Johnson
NRA
Johnson
Associated Press
White House
Supreme Court
Del Rio Area Weather Outlook Tonight Through Thursday
Partly cloudy conditions persist in Del Rio and surrounding area tonight and Thursday. Yesterday’s high reached 87 with a low of 70. this morning’s minimum was 65.
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del Rio
Weather outlook for West Texas Panhandle
Partly cloudy with possible light showers in the Panhandle tonight and Thursday.
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Texas
Panhandle
Cato Details Killing of U S Narcotics Agent
In Lubbock on May 29 Sheriff W F Cato testified he shot Narcotic Agent Spencer Stafford in Post on February 7 to defend his life. He said Stafford whirled and fired, and he did not know Stafford was a federal agent until after the incident. Stafford was machine-gunned near a veterinary hospital during an investigation of suspected narcotics activity.
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Lubbock
W. F. Cato
Spencer Stafford
Garza County
Stafford
Veterinary Hospital
Joe Blakeney
Joe Walker
C. E
Jack) Boyd
Nolan County
Stuart Shultz
Maryneal
Boyd
Hayman
Big Spring
Lamesa
Court Refuses to Hear Doomed Men Appeals
Court of Criminal Appeals refused to rehear the death penalty appeals of C B James of Tyler County and W R Hildreth of Howard County. James stabbed his common law wife Cleo last November and Hildreth stabbed his wife Decia with an ice pick at Big Spring last October. Only executive clemency can spare them from electrocution. Liberty, without wisdom, is license.
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Austin
Court of Criminal Appeals
C B. James
Tyler County
W. R. Hildreth
Howard County
James
Cleo
Hildreth
Decia
Big Spring
Del Rio Businesses Close Early for Rodeo Day
Del Rio merchants announce 2 pm Thursday as Del Rio Day for the 11th annual championship rodeo. Frank Walton, president of the rodeo association, says the city’s business houses will close so employees can attend the event.
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del Rio
Frank Walton
The
Rodeo Association
Hidalgo County Tax Exemption Declared Void
The Supreme Court ruled the Hidalgo County tax exemption unconstitutional. Assistant attorney general Scott Gaines said the decision could affect other tax remission statutes. The Legislature had exempted Hidalgo County for 25 years due to flood and overflow issues on the condition of county bond votes to prevent recurrences.
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Hidalgo County
Supreme Court
Austin
Scott Gaines
Allred Signs Rural School Aid Bill
Governor Allred signed the rural school aid measure in Austin on May 29, appropriating 10 million dollars for the biennium to support rural education.
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Allred
Austin
Weyerhaeuser uncles arrive before ransom deadline
Tacoma reports Frederick and Rudolph Weyerhaeuser two wealthy uncles of the boy’s father arrived from Minnesota shortly before the $200,000 ransom deadline in the George Weyerhaeuser kidnapping case.
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Tacoma
Weyerhaeeuser
Minnesota
George Weyerhaeuser
Frederick
Rudolph Weyerhaeuser
Explosion collapses Manhattan building injures six feared buried
A powerful explosion in a three story brick building in Manhattan destroyed the structure and started a blaze. Firefighters labor to reach victims buried in the debris while four people are reported in serious condition at area hospitals.
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New York
Manhattan
Flandin's Cabinet Faces Shaky Future
Paris on May 29 reports Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin's cabinet in peril as the Chamber of Deputies finance committee is set to oppose his bid for dictatorial powers to defend the franc.
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Paris
Pierre Etienne Flandin
Chamber of Deputies Finance Committee
Mohair Price Jump as 1.35 Million Pounds Sold at 30 and 40 Cents
Tom Richey of A. W. Hilliard and Son bought about 1.3 million pounds of mohair from the 1934 and 1935 clips at 30 and 40 cents, with buys extending through Del Rio Uvalde and Sonora. The sale signals rising prices and possible summer contracting, as goat country reports rains and wool/mohair use expands in textiles and upholsteries.
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San Angelo
Tom Richey
A. W. Hilliard and Son
del Rio
Uvalde
Sonora
Frank Montague
Bandera
Val Verde Wool and Mohair Company
Dolph Briscoe
Uvalde Livestock Loan Company
Wool Growers Central Storage Company
Aldwell Brothers
Richey
John Allison
Paint Rock
Joe B. Blakeney
Jess Elrod
Rankin
Mr. Blakeney
Tom Parker
Ryder and Brown
Mont Noelke
Merizon
Texas Wool and Mohair Company
West Texas Wool and Mohair Association
Sumner Willis
Walter Marston
Texas to take better care of mental cases
Texas advances a broad program to improve care for the mentally ill with 1936 37 budget increases. The plan funds 1119 insane patients 240 feeble minded 150 tuberculars and 70 deaf and blind Negro children with new buildings and intensified psychopathic treatment at Wichita Falls Starling and Terrell State Hospital. The move aims to reduce jail confinement and overcrowding by expanding admissions and speeding turnover in state hospitals.
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Department of State
Homer Leonard
McAllen
House Appropriations Committee
Wichita Falls Starling
Terrell State Hospital
Six Injured in Headon Collision North of Del Rio
Two dead and six injured after a headon crash on the Sonora highway 20 miles north of Del Rio Tuesday night. Victims include George Willburn Miers and Seferin Andrada. The Miers car carried Mexicans from Ozona to Del Rio. survivors were treated at Williams Sanitarium and Del Rio Hospital. Funeral plans announced for Miers with services set at Willis home.
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Sonora
George Willburn
Dub” Miers
Lon Willis
Bob Miers
Seferin Andrada
del Rio
Casmiro Zapata
Miers
Raymond Ramirez
Ozona
Eusevio Ramirez
Arturo Ramirez
Joe Hernandez
Luis Oliva
G. A. Morris
Marathon
Rocksprings
Jimmie Nesbitt
Mr. Morris
Mr. Nesbitt
Mr. Miers
Williams Sanitarium
A. E. Steinmetz
Zapata
New Deal Plans Amendment For Regulating Labor
Washington May 29. An attempt to pass a constitutional amendment to empower the federal government to regulate labor conditions across state lines was seriously considered in New Deal circles after the Supreme Court decision invalidated the NRA. The plan envisions a long range program and a voluntary code structure to replace the NRA’s wreckage.
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Washington
Supreme Court
NRA
Ten Special Cops Assigned for Del Rio Rodeo Traffic
Ten special police will assist Chief of Police Amos Humphrey and his patrol in handling traffic at Del Rio's 11th annual championship rodeo. Special officers named are Harold Larson J R Latham Bill Calk Joe Crandle Ed Hord A J Kelley C L Cavender Douglas Brasier Jim Boatwright and Clyde Carr.
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Amos Humphrey
del Rio
Chief Humphrey
Harold Larson
J. R. Latham
Bill Calk
Joe Crandle
Ed Hord
A. J. Kelley
C. L. Cavender
Douglas Brasier
Jim Boatwright
Clyde Carr
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Sanderson Yards
Moreta
Highway
Highway Department
Sutton
Carta Valley
Kerrville
Sabinal
Rio Grande
United States
Lowell
Wash
John P. Weyerhaeuser, Jr
Bruce Bowman
George
Rural Schools OF Texas
Cato
U.S
Burke
Flandin
By Sam Ashburn
West
D. E
Jack Hughes
Studley and Emery
Taylor
Bertram
Guy Drake
Sonora Road
del Rio High School
West Texas Military Academy
Willis Home
Guiner Street
Westlawn Cemetery
Doran Funeral Home
New Deal
Balzac
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