Labor, strikes, and public figures in a terse era
The piece laments divisions among textile workers during a strike and warns a united front could end the era of widespread labor unrest. It notes ongoing criticism of Lindbergh by wife of the aviator and mentions retired armed forces officers, Huey Long’s New Orleans entry, and Attorney General Homer Cummings pursuing dissolution of the American Society of Music Writers under Sherman act scrutiny.
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Homer 8S. Cummings
American Society of Music Writers
Campaign Looms for Relief Bonds Next Year
Texas lawmakers heard warnings that the remaining 9.5 million dollar state relief bond would not cover needs through winter. Officials urged issuing all bonds to meet six to seven million monthly relief demand, while two resolutions sought itemized relief fund accounting. Mayor Holcombe warned of a possible second special session if bonds are not issued.
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Austin
Texas
Joint Assembly
House
Adam R. Johnson
Charlies Braun
William Strauss
Houston
Harris County Relief Board
Oscar F. Holcombe
State Auditor
Relief Commission
Holcombe
Galveston
Weather snapshot Del Rio area and周 Vicinity
Mostly cloudy tonight and Sunday with scattered showers likely in the West. Yesterday’s high reached 94 and low 77. This morning’s low 17. Expect occasional showers along the South.
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del Rio
Texas Sheep And Goats Will Cost U. S. $4,000,000
Estimates of Texas sheep and goats to be sold to the government rise toward four million dollars. A Salt Lake City conference September 11-12 will outline special prices for registered Rambouillet sheep and Angora goats. Texas delegates include T A Kincaid D T Jones and Fred Barwood. Goats may be labeled chevon for relief distribution.
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San Angelo
Texas
T. A. Kincaid
Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers’ Association
E. W. Sheets
Salt Lake City
Kincaid
D. T. Jones
Fred Barwood
Sonora
Allred Fails to Get Hunter Felicitations in Texas
James V Allred, Democratic governor nominee, returned to Austin after Wichita Falls with primary results. Asked what Tom Hunter said in his congratulations message, Allred replied that Hunter had not congratulated him yet, though he regarded Hunter as a nice fellow. Both men were in Wichita Falls during the election and afterward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
James V Allred
Wichita Falls
Tom Hunter
Allred
Corn Hog Aid Exceeds Fifty Five Million Dollars
Washington reports first installment payments to producers in the corn-hog program totaling over 55 million dollars to date. A. G. Black, chief of the corn-hog section, notes the sum includes Texas with 387,756 dollars recorded.
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Washington
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
A. G. Black
Texas
Blind man runs jail shop in Wisconsin
In Janesville Rock County jail, Eugene Denning a blind man operates a small retail shop aided by prisoners. Denning uses his keen sense of touch to distinguish cigarette brands by feeling the packages.
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Janesville
Wis
Eugene Denning
Rock County
Denning
Two Doctors Held In Dillinger Case Aiding Bandits
Federal agents arrest Doctors Wilhelm Loeser and Harold Cassidy in Chicago on charges of aiding fugitives. Louis Piquett, attorney, and four others accused of concealing gangsters include O Leary Finert ys and Conforti. Hoover led the arrests as part of the Dillinger and Van Meter escape investigation.
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Chicago
Wilhelm Loeser
Harold Bernard Cassidy
Dillinger
Homer van Meter
Department of Justice
Louis Piquett
Arthur W. O'Leary
Piquette
William
Ella Finerty
Marie Conforti
van Meter
Calumet City
J. Edgar Hoover
Bureau of Investigation
Drought Order Grants Duty Free Hay And Straw
The Treasury issued rules admitting hay and straw for livestock feed free of duty under the drought emergency proclamation. Other feeds may be designated as duty free later.
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Washington
Treasury
Roosevelt Signs Order Renewing Automobile Code
President Roosevelt signed the 60 day renewal of the automobile code of the NRA at Hyde Park. He declined to discuss Lewis Douglas’s resignation as director of the budget, saying only that any statements would come from the White House.
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Roosevelt
Hyde Park
N. Y
Lewis Douglas
Marvin H. McIntyre
Wind Shift Flares Argentina Oil Fire. Five Die
Wind shift revived the gasoline and oil fire near Campana Argentina as large and several smaller tanks exploded. The blaze has burned since Tuesday after National Oil Company plant explosions caused widespread damage and evacuation. Five people were killed but engineers say the fire is under control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Campana
Argentina
National Oil Company
Officer Jesse Sharp Found Dead In Laredo
The 47 year old merchant police officer and former Missouri Pacific station watchman was found dead on a sidewalk behind city hall at 5 40 am Friday by the night watchman. Coroner's inquest attributes death to natural causes after Sharp reported illness on Thursday but remained on duty.
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Laredo
Jesse Sharp
Merchant Police
Missouri Pacific
Sharp
The Only Way to Have a Friend Is to Be One
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MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emerson
No U S Relief For Strikers If Act Is Found Unjustified
New York dispatch reports Federal relief for needy cotton textile strikers may be withdrawn if the National Labor Relations Board or Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins rules the walkout unjustified. Hopkins says the relief burden from a 420,000 worker strike would be negligible and notes many strikers have other resources. He arrived to meet Pennsylvania officials including Gov. Gifford Pinchot and repeated that relief would be limited to those who qualify.
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New York
Harry L. Hopkins
National Labor Relations Board
Secretary of Labor
Frances Perkins
Hopkins
Gifford Pinchot
Pennsylvania
Post Office Banks Stores Close Monday
The post office banks and all business houses except drug stores will be closed Monday for Labor Day observed. The Evening News will publish as usual.
Pecos Votes 455 to 0 For Water System
Pecos citizens voted 455 to 0 in favor of issuing 242000 dollars in four percent bonds to install a municipal soft water system. The bonds will be sold to the PWA and matched with a 60000 dollar free labor grant to install the system and buy the present plant. Bonds secured by water plant revenues and the plant itself, never a lien on city property.
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Pecos
PWA
Estes Quits Job on Tyler Newspapers
Col. Carl L. Estes, East Texas publisher and editor-manager of the Tyler Courier-Times and Morning Telegraph, owned by the Butler estate, announced his resignation effective September 1. Estes had established the Telegraph for the Butler Company four years ago.
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Dallas
Carl L. Estes
East Texas
Tyler Ccoureir-Times
Morning Telegraph
T. B. Butler
Estes
Telegraph
Butler Company
Strike Extends To Silk Workers Across Textile Fields
Washington reports the textile strike expanding to 200 000 silk workers, completing walkouts in cotton and woolen sectors. Union leaders cite pledges of discipline and fair treatment while mills estimate 1 281 cotton 500 woolen and worsted 1 000 rayon facilities affected. Francis J. Gorman, chair of the strike committee, telegraphed governors to urge orderly action.
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Washington
Francis J. Gorman
Wool Market Sluggish As Buyers Await Lower Prices
The Commercial Bulletin reports stagnant wool business with buyers waiting for lower prices. Foreign markets are slightly down. West sales limited to Texas at 60 cents or less for 12 month clean wool. Rumors point to a large mohair sale under 30 cents. Quotations list Texas 12 month and Mohair ranges.
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Boston
Brisbane
Texas
Boston Wool Market Sees Limited Western Purchases
Boston buyers confined activity to small quantities from Western mills for piecing out. Demand centered on fine to quarter-blood graded wools and original bag wools. Short French combing 64s and finer brought 66 768, scoured. Good French combing and average combing sold at 70.1 percent, scoured. Prices on graded territory wool unchanged.
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Boston
Who gives his milk to the cats must drink water
A terse proverb notes that anyone who feeds cats with milk should also provide water for himself. The saying links caregiving with reciprocal care and warns against neglecting basic needs.
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Ger
Hutt Criticizes Exclusion of Mutton Sheep and Goats
In Uvalde on September 1 J W Hutt editor of the Rock Springs Record urged protests against excluding mutton sheep and goats from a government buying program. He argued these animals yield the best meat and mohair for rugs and fabrics and announced a Rocksprings meeting Saturday afternoon to organize protests.
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Hutt
Uvalde
Texas
J. W. Hutt
Rocksprings Record
Dinsdale
First National
Frank Pound Del Rio Man’s Brother Dies in Chicago
Word arrived Saturday of the death in Chicago of Frank Pound, only brother of W. E. Pound of Del Rio. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Pound, who had visited Chicago, learned of the death while at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and left at once to return to Chicago.
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Frank Pound
del Rio
Chicago
W. E. Pound
West Texas college breaks ground on men’s recreation center
Work has begun on a large recreational center at West Texas State Teachers College in Canyon. The low rambling building will use native stone with colored flint rock and petrified wood, to house 44 men students. Room rent will fund construction and upkeep as grounds feature crushed rock walks and a desert garden.
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Canyon
West Texas State Teachers College
Government to Begin Sheep and Goat Purchases by Sept 4
The drought program aims to buy dying livestock in Val Verde Finards Sutton Crockett Terrell and western Kinney counties with buys starting not later than September 4. District leaders and ranchers push to speed processing, with 50 applications filed and a sorter to be appointed to inspect and certify animals for shipment.
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R. E. Thomason
el Paso
Marvin Jones
Agriculture Committee
G. W. Barnes
Denver
Val Verde
Finards
Sutton, Crockett
Terrell
Kinney County
Thomason
del Rio
T. L. Dinsdale
Drisdale
Martin
O. B. Martin
Huey probes New Orleans government
Senator Huey Long opened his investigation into the hostile city government in New Orleans in a skyscraper office guarded by state soldiers. Military trucks delivered National Guardsmen while business section confusion grew. Long arrived with soldiers and entered via a private elevator as officials barred reporters from committee rooms.
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New Orleans
Huey Long
Louis F. Guerre
Guhars
Youth Held Here During Probe Of Automobile Theft
Charles Raider an 18 year old, held in city jail after midnight court approval. Police chief Cole Blackwell and Officer Amos Humphreys ordered the detention while investigation continues. Raids confessed the coupe he rode in was stolen property. He says he recently left an orphanage in San Antonio.
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Charles Raider
Cole Blackwell
Amos Humphreys
Loraine
Colorado
Raider
San Antonio
Busy Four-H Girl Shamrock War on Drought Won
Lor raine Brown, president of the Dixon 4-H Club, canned 465 quarts of fruit vegetables and meat. She made 36 dollars of clothes including five dresses one coat and seven undergarments plus two sheets four curtains one quilt four aprons and two hats. She also tended the family garden cultivating 3836 feet of starchy vegetables 9425 feet of leafy vegetables and other foods for home use.
One Plant Provides Stew Ingredients
Muleshoe farmer R. L. Brown grows a single vine called mulligataway producing both above ground tomatoes and below ground white potatoes. The plant with alfalfa foliage and okra blossoms yields onionsmelling roots. Brown wells irrigation and is experienced in grafting as he experiments with this underground and overhead crop.
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R. L. Brown
Blackwater Valley
Here
Brown
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