20 Sep 1935
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Newspaper
Del Rio Evening News
Location
Del Rio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1935
Page
1
The column criticizes Dawes for delays in addressing repayment of a 90 million dollar loan and mocks various topics from Constitution Day to the Gila Monsters. It notes Jim Tully’s notoriety and discusses a rumored fatal meeting between two Houston men in Washington, dismissed due to silent press services.
A compact excerpt lists various quips on self praise property marriage and political slogans. The pieces offer satirical takes on personal vanity and public entitlement reflecting a midcentury newspaper voice.
A quirky newspaper item notes hog calling at a Detroit fair, jokes about armored cars and spades as peace weapons, Florida Keys, and celebrity keys to cities. It recalls a Chicago woman arresting her 96 year old husband as a wildcat and jokes about police dragging him away in a wheelchair.
In Austin the House Revenue and Taxation Committee head W E Jones urged funding revenue alongside liquor control and old age pensions. Bills proposed taxes on auto mortgages natural resources domino halls coin machines and circus events plus higher state share on horse race wagers. A midweek plan sent delinquent tax penalties to a March deadline. Sub committees began liquor control and pension debates.
New York broker Leo Chertok said a London meeting with Dr. Warynex Martin, Ethiopian minister, was satisfactory about his claim to Ethiopia's mineral rights. Columbia Broadcasting System then canceled Francis Rickett's broadcast after the British Foreign Office disapproved the concession talks.
Completed plans for a 38 foot by 50 foot fireproof Pandale school building will be presented to WPA headquarters in Uvalde Monday by W F Jourdan state superintendent and Will O Mills Pandale board president. County Commissioner H J Y Mills filed the application with WPA officials three weeks ago.
Three giant power transformers were shipped from Sharon Pennsylvania to the Boulder Dam reserve power house in Los Angeles California. The units left Del Rio late Friday afternoon after a one day hold. John Blank of Westinghouse Electric Company said they should reach Los Angeles in about two weeks.
Secretary Roper declared economic recovery under Roosevelt has taken hold, citing March 1933 onward gains and the need for continued policy support. He urged listeners that critics admit recovery and emphasized securing jobs, fair profits, and broader security for the people.
An escaped convict who became a preacher and preached nationwide for 12 years was released on parole Thursday by Governor Park in Jefferson City.
President Roosevelt announced the resignation of Joseph Kennedy chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Kennedy will retire Monday to return to private practice. His successor was not indicated. Also Madrid reports Premier Lerroux’s cabinet resigned after failed compromise with agrarians seeking greater representation.
A sequence of dynamite blasts shook LaFollette Tennessee early today destroying part of a business block and killing Mrs Prudie Rutherford mother of seven. The blasts damaged a residence where the Rutherford family lived.
Two boys claiming Missouri as their home state were released by the county sheriff after 24 hours of investigative detention. A DOJ check confirmed vehicle ownership, leading to their release.
The 1929 Ford Tudor sedan stolen from Houston Monday afternoon and recovered here Tuesday remains held as officers await instructions on its disposition.
City Clerk E F Howard said the new San Felipe project will finish the main pipe lines within 60 days. Two gangs are rushing work at a rapid pace with about a hundred men on the payroll. One citizen began building his own tap line, Howard stated.
In Toronto on September 20, charges of manslaughter against William Mulqueeney and Irwin Davis, Detroit airmen, in the slaying of Brooklyn baseball player Len Koenecke, were dismissed after a coroner's jury found they acted in self defense.
The Internal Revenue Bureau reports a 22 per cent rise in Texas 1935 income and internal revenue taxes over 1934. Preliminary 1935- fiscal year totals show $74,210,805.18 collected vs $60,668,668.63 in 1934. Corporate and individual income taxes rose 54 percent. miscellaneous payments up 5 percent. agricultural adjustments up 30 percent. Texas led in total state taxes from petroleum products and related taxes with figures like $614,523.08 for crude oil withheld and $2,155,509.48 for crude transported by pipeline.
The Van Sweringens face the sale of their vast railroad holdings as a $48,000,000 loan remains in default. Cleveland financiers describe the situation as the potential auction of a $3,000,000,000 rail empire. The article notes securities tied to the beleaguered holdings and the looming auctioneer’s block.
Dallas hearings reveal Myer Perlstein of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union warns a general strike may follow if garment makers and the Open Shop Association do not change policies. He testifies while on trial for contempt of court over alleged conspiracy to incite violence during the garment workers’ strike.
James F. Lee and his 11 year old son Billy Bob were found shot in Lee's car near Lover's Leap in Cameron Park Waco. A justice of the peace ruled it a suicide pact but the widow contested and sought a further investigation to determine if it was a double murder. Bullet wounds were in both heads and a pistol lay in the locked vehicle.
Relief labor was restored to the new San Felipe Creek bridge Friday morning after a one day layoff. Only two more spans remain to be poured before the bridge is completed.
Corpus Christi reports the Gulf Coast will gain Texas first marine biological laboratory at Rockport. W W Boyd, director of coastal operations for the state game fish and oyster commission, announced the project on Thursday.
Val Verde County tax receivers inform taxpayers of a split payment option allowing half the taxes to be paid by November 30 and the second half by June 39 without penalties or interest. The office is issuing 1935 receipts as payments begin October 1 and a January 31 deadline or arrangements are required to avoid 8 percent penalty and 6 percent interest.
Maryville Tennessee September 20 The old school building where Sam Houston taught may be moved from a farm near here to the Blount County courthouse grounds The Mary Blount Chapter DAR voted to proceed with removal The historic site recalls Houston teaching in Indian days He charged eight dollars a year tuition with one third in cash one third in coin and one third in cotton cloth Houston later became district attorney at Nashville congressman governor of Tennessee and first president of the Texas Republic
Federal agents raided a huge illicit distillery in Jacksonville Lehigh County. The operation reportedly evaded about 22000 dollars in daily taxes. An underground wire alarm system hindered arrests while ten thousand gallons of denatured alcohol and five thousand gallons of finished product were seized.
An Associated Press report says Italy massed troops and munitions in Libya near British interests as France tones up a cabinet meeting over the Italo Ethiopian dispute. Selassie rejects concessions without compensation while Laval heads to Paris amid sanctions talk and Senegalese regiments head to Djibouti for defense.
Federal and private police probe an unknown accomplice in the Lindbergh case. A Baltimore lead ties missing ransom money to a Maryland gang front man and the shipbuilder John Hughes Curtis amid mob links and hoax theories.
Partly cloudy weather expected across Del Rio and surroundings tonight and Saturday. High reached 88 yesterday with a low of 68 overnight. temperatures remained around 68 this morning.
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