Five Texas oil firms pay April gasoline taxes totaling 1.07 million
Five major Texas oil companies paid 1 066 465 38 in gasoline taxes for April, down 47 419 50 from March. Gulf Refining Texas Company Magnolia Petroleum Pierce Petroleum Humble Oil and Refining contributed amounts totaling the sum, with state comptroller S H Terrell noting an April total near 1 500 000. In Fort Worth a 10 year old boy drowned at Forest Park municipal pool. rescue attempts lasted two hours with no success.
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Texas
S. H. Terrell
Mr. Terrell
Gulf Refining Company
Texas Company
Magnolia Petroleum Company
Pierce Petroleum Company
Humble Oil and Refining Company
Fort Worth
Tex
Scotty Williams
Forest Park
Four Million Dollar Road Contracts Let by State Commission
The state highway commission closed a two day session approving about 4,000,000 in new construction work. paving, new bridges and grading contracts totaled 1,813,000 with 151 miles of maintenance. over 1,000,000 in construction was contracted on Thursday. Preliminary steps to state and federal aid were taken for projects in over 30 counties.
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State Highway Commission
Commission
Lutheran Pastors Assigned to Texas by Seminaries
The Lutheran ministry in Texas will gain 12 new pastors from seminaries in St. Louis Springfield and Seward. Assignments include G Heinemeyer and H Hellbusch to St Louis group to San Antonio W E Meyer to San Antonio Denton Carl Kasper to Denton B Wagner to Texarkana A Bruns to Vanderbilt A Buchschaeher to Loraine O Shriner to Smithville H Stroebel to Goose Creek C Wolf to Three Rivers J Baden to Houston Heights W Meissner to the Mexican mission at San Antonio.
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Waco
Tex
Lutheran Ministry of
San Angelo Slayer Appeals Death Case
Floyd Newton Byrnes 24, convicted in San Angelo of murder in the slaying of Myrna Juergens 12, seeks an appeal in the Court of Criminal Appeals. The crime occurred March 3, 1928 at the Juergens home. Byrnes faces electrocution, with additional charges for killings of Mrs. Juergens and Mrs. Schirra.
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Austin
Texas
Floyd Newton Byrnes
San Angelo
Myrna Juergens
W. J. Jurgens
Court of Criminal Appeals
Court of Criminal Appeals At
Byrnes
Juergens
Myrna
J. W. Juerges
Rosa Schirra
Schirra
Destructive Hail Strikes Far North Texas Region
A large hailstorm hit the upper county Monday morning, damaging vegetation and roofs at the Rycade oil wells 20 miles northeast of Fagle Pass. Mesquite trees were stripped of bark, and trucks lost lights. observers described the cloud as angry and alert, with scene resembling winter.
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Fagle Pass
Texas
Phoenix
Rycade Oil Wells
Confession Ties Hoppe to Dorothy Sielagowski Case
Toledo, May 30 Charles Hoppe 26 taxi driver confessed to kidnapping 7 year old Dorothy Sielagowski and strangling her after investigators found his bloodstained clothing. The child was taken at about 4 am and left on the porch of her uncle Joseph Skibinski. Teeth marks and a dentist’s plaster cast linked Hoppe to the crime.
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Toledo
Ohio
Charles Hoppe
John Hovey
Dorothy Sielagowski
Floppe
Silagowski
Slovy
Hoppe
Joseph Skibinski
Dorothy
Sielagowski
Taylor Man Killed by Mexican In Fatal Farm Dispute
Taylor Texas May 28 A Mexican worker suspected in the slaying of Arthur Bunnell a Williamson county farmer is captured in Austin after Bunnell was shot five times at his farm six miles north of Taylor. No eye witnesses, wife heard five shots, Mexican fled in Bunnell’s car. Bunnell 44 left widow and siblings. The case follows a morning quarrel and a later fatal confrontation.
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Taylor
Texas
Arthur Bunnell
Williamson County
Austin
Bunnell
Pumplarey
Frank
Sam Bunnell
Bess Bunnell
Henry Hodges
West
Boulder Dam Bill Retains Its Place in Senate
Washington May 26 The Boulder Canyon dam bill held its top position in the Senate voting 44 to 22 to keep the measure as unfinished business. Johnson California led calls to adjourn with the House cruiser and Army bills facing priority, while filibuster action continued on other measures. Adjournement was postponed to Monday, with Johnson warning of a possible continuation session after Monday if needed.
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Washington, D. C
Boulder Canyon
Senate
Sen
House
Hach
Lena Reed
Pennsylvania
Boulder Dam
Johnson
California
Thealifornian
la Follette
Wisconsin
Congress
Coolidge
Ashurst
Hayden
Arizona
Wink fire destroys seven stores in single blaze
In Wink near Pyote Texas seven store buildings were destroyed by fire last night causing about 100000 dollars in losses. Citizens without a fire department fought the flames and dynamite was used to halt spread. No insurance covered the flimsy structures.
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Pyote
Texas
Wink
Here
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Seymour
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Tsiwan
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China
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Bill
Wonivel
de Laval
de Lavals
Kolmeier & Klier CO
Fredericksburg Publishing Company
Hines
Kelloggs
Ever Ready Motor Co
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