Millionaires Sons Enter Politics BOTH SIDES GIRD FOR ELECTION CONTEST
Five wealthy young men are named as candidates in a forthcoming electoral contest. F. Trubee Davison, son of a Morgan partner, seeks New York governor on the Republican side. William H. Vanderbilt, 29, Rhode Island senator, aims at lieutenant governor with a rich inheritance. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, 33, heir to a vast fortune, enters as a Democratic candidate for Congress in Long Island. Robert Low Bacon, former Harvard athlete, seeks reelection as Republican in Whitney’s district. David S. Ingalls, son of a NYC Central vice president, is the Republican governor nominee in Ohio.
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F. Trubee Davison
New York
J. P. Morgan
Williamh
Billy” Vanderbilt
Rhode Island
Alfred Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
Long Island
Robert Low Bacon
Harvard
Whitney
David S. Ingalls
New York Central
Ohio
Mexico Congress Opens Under Smoke of Rumors and Reform
Mexico City opens its 4 month session with troops lining streets to protect the president and palace. Rubio seeks agrarian reform while preparing for mixed claims treaty renewal and a crowded field of presidential hopefuls including Rodriguez Puig Casarano Amaro Almazan Tejeda and Acosta.
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Mexico City
Pascual Ortiz Rubio
Calles
Congress
Chamber
Mixed Claims Commission
Four Navy Pli ers Killed in Plane Fall
In the Canal Zone at Colón an American Navy plane crashed while attempting a landing after its motor failed. Four crew members died, including H Schnitzlein of Brooklyn and W F Manthorn of Brockton, with D R Aze and an aviation ordinance man among the crew. The doomed aircraft nosed into ten feet of water as it touched down.
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Colon
Canal Zone
H. Schnitzlein
Brooklyn
W. F. Manthorn
Brockton
Mass
D. R. “Aze
Hopkins Coun
Flect
Schnitz
Val Verde Unemployed Organizing Meeting Planned
Unemployed whites of Val Verde County schedule a meeting at Greenwood Park Friday at 8:30 p m to organize. A promoter says collective action will yield better results and plans to approach authorities and businessmen for employment help.
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Val Verde County
Greenwood Park
District Church Convention Opens Here on Monday
Texas Fifth District convention of Christian Churches opens Monday in Del Rio for a two day session with representatives from 10 counties. District president Rev. T.S. Stauffer announced the schedule with opening at 1 30 PM at the First Christian Church.
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Texas
Rail shops reopen at Junction after five day week
City, Kansas Union Pacific announces the reopening of its Junction shops with sixty men recalled to work on a five day schedule starting tomorrow. The shops had been closed since August 12.
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Junction
City
Kan
Union Pacific Railroad
Dissler Rites Held Thursday at Ranch Home
Charles Dissler 47, a Devil's River ranchman, died after a heart attack at his ranch home. Efforts to move the body across flooded draws failed and a planned landing by plane was abandoned due to rain. Burial occurred at noon Thursday. He was a Texan long established in Beaver Lake area since 1888 and survived by his widow and three young sons.
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Charles Dissier
Devil's River
del Rio
Mr. Dissier
Damon Doran
Beaver Lake
Kendall County
Texas
Louise Coin
Illinois
Melvin
J. R
Charles III
House Defeats Wet Resolution in Texas
In Austin on September 1, the House voted 71 to 43 to postpone consideration of a resolution urging Texas members of the national meat to call a people vote.
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Austin
House Today
Texas
Five Burned In Louisiana Fire Near Sulphur
Beaumont Sept 1 A fire killed Robert Vincent his wife and their three children when their home ten miles south of Sulphur Louisiana was burned today. Firefighters battled the blaze as a neighbor reported the family trapped inside.
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Louisiana
Beaumont
Robert Vincent
Sulphur, la
Clay County Farmers Earn Around 60000 Monthly from Dairy and Poultry
Farmers in Clay County Mississippi are receiving about sixty thousand dollars each month from dairy and poultry operations, reflecting steady local agricultural earnings and diversification in the rural economy.
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Clay County
Miss
Miracle Girl Returns from Death in Water Valley
Lara Johnson, 17, of Water Valley Mississippi, sparked wide interest after family and friends claimed she rose from her coffin while mourned as dead. She said she had seen heaven and was sent back to do good on earth after a year of illness.
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Lara Johnson
Water Valley
Miss
Fearful couple drowned in Pinto Creek mystery
A Chevrolet coupe vanished Tuesday night after plunging into swollen Pinto Creek near Fort Clark. A striped jacket was recovered between bridges, matching the driver’s attire, and a phone number found inside led to an ice factory in Fate. The fate of the man and woman remained unknown Thursday.
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Pinto Creek Bridge
J. W. Crandall
Fort Clark
M. L. “Bud
Whistler
Sheriff's Department
San Antonio
RF C studies loan to wool and cotton industries
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation is examining lending money to wool and cotton manufacturers to procure raw materials and expand production. Wilson McCarthy, director of the RFC and secretary of the National Wool Growers Association, indicated action would follow under laws on orderly marketing of raw materials.
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Washington
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Wilson McCarthy
National Wool Growers Association
McCarthy
Farm Strikers Ignore Truce in Nine Day Campaign
Des Moines dispatch reports farmers’ holiday protesters continuing activity despite a nine day truce. About twenty pickets near Council Bluffs stayed on the job to deter farmers from delivering produce to market. Woodbury County officials said highway picketing would continue and 175 deputies were stationed at the courthouse after reports of a walnut grove gathering and threats against five people linked to a shooting of 14 pickets.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Council Biaffa
Woodbury County
Farmers’ Holiday Association
Sioux City
Walnut Grove
Tilton
Rio Grande Valley farmers threaten strike over milk prices
El Paso milk distributors faced a strike threat as 48 Rio Grande Valley dairy farmers formed a producers association. The farmers, supplying at least 80 percent of El Paso's milk, sought higher prices and began signing members to the group.
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EL Paso
Rio Grande Valley
John T. Mason Under Bond in Liquor Case
John T. Mason a 42 year old ranchman of Maverick and Val Verde counties is free on $2000 bond after a hearing before U S Commissioner J D Plum in Eagle Pass He was arrested by four customs inspectors at his home fifteen miles north of the city Mason formerly resided in Del Rio.
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Eagle Pass
John T. Mason
Maverick
Val Verde
Liberty
Mason
U. 8
J. D. Plum
Here
del Rio
Texan Writes Book On Ranching Methods
Dr. W. C. Holden of Texas Tech writes Rollie Burns of Lubbock into a new history of West Texas ranching. The book presents Burns’ accounts and reflects on the ranching industry from a Texan perspective.
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Lubbock
Rollie Burns
W. C. Holden
Texas Technological College
West Texas
Fearful Northwestern Farmers Form Farm Strikers
Wallace Short of Sioux City says conservative farmers in the corn belt fear hunger as up to 60 percent face possible dispossession. Short, ex-mayor and state legislator, describes the new organized movement and its roots in unity and farmer needs.
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Midwest
Sioux City
Iowa
NEA. Service, Inc
Wallace Short
Short
Ferguson to Meet Vote Challenge
Austin reports James E. Ferguson says he will meet Governor Sterling's challenge to determine the regularity of the run off primary vote. Unofficial returns show Miriam E. Ferguson leading by about 2300 votes with over 951000 total votes cast. Senator Walter Woodward introduces a Senate investigation request into alleged fraudulent voting in the governor’s race.
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Austin
James E. Ferguson
Sterling
Texas Election Bureau
Miriam E. Ferguson
Ferguson
Nace Ein Hi
Highway Department
Walter Woodward
Coleman
Texlay
Senate
Woodward
Edgar Witt
Murder Suspect Captured in Val Verde
Walter I. Arredondo, sought for the murder of his wife in San Antonio years ago, was arrested in San Felipe Thursday morning by Val Verde sheriff and Del Rio police. He is held in the Val Verde County jail awaiting guidance from the San Antonio sheriff.
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Walter I. Arredondo
San Antonio
San Felipe
Sheriff's Department
del Rio
M. L
Bud"y Whistler
Val Verde County
Century-Old Clock Keeps Time in Quaker Meeting House
In South Yarmouth Massachusetts a 100 year old clock in the Quaker meeting house still runs well. The mechanism is wound annually at the church’s yearly meeting to start the clock for the year.
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Yarmouth
Mass
Del Rio Area Weather Tonight and Friday Showers Possible
Partly cloudy tonight with likely showers tonight and Friday. Yesterday's high reached 82 degrees and the low dipped to 70 with a 72 degree minimum this morning.
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del Rio
Weather Outlook for West Texas Tonight and Friday
Partly cloudy conditions prevail across West Texas tonight with a chance of showers in the southeast portion. Friday sees similar unsettled weather as the south east area remains most likely to experience showers.
Weather Outlook: Showers and Cooler North and East
Partly cloudy tonight and Friday with occasional showers in the west portion and a cooler feel in the northeast. Forecasters warn of lingering cool air and scattered rain across the region.
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