Austin Texas Business Conditions April 193?
April business conditions in Texas and the Southwest showed a weaker month after stronger early-year results. Credit remains abundant though rates rise. checks in the Dallas Fed district jumped 24 percent from last April while bank borrowing rose. Building, wholesale trade slow, livestock and truck crops mixed. petroleum up with curtailment. cement plants at capacity. lumber down in production but up in shipments.
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Austin
Texas
Southwest
Bernard Nichols
Texas Business Review
Bureau of Business Research
University of Texas
Dallas
Brasher Freed in Murder Case by Jury Verdict
Claude Brasher was acquitted of murder in the Henry Niemeyer case by a San Antonio 19th District Court jury after nearly 16 hours of deliberation. The verdict came at 2 45 Saturday afternoon following a Friday night trial. Brasher testified he drove Turner to the station but did not know an illegal act was planned and left as shooting began. This was his second trial after a hung jury previously.
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Claude Brasher
Henry Neimeyer
San Antonio
Llo’colock
Brasher
Victor Turner
Niemeyer
Turner
McKenzie Rehearing Set for June 6 in Texas
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals fixes June 6 for submission of John A. McKenzie alias Pete McKenzie's motion for rehearing. He is under a death sentence for the murder of Sam Street, chief of detectives at San Antonio, on September 10, 1927.
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Austin
Tex
Court of Criminal Appeals
John A. McKenzie
Pete McKenzie
Sam Street
San Antonio
McKenzie
Small Boy Killed by Car Near New Braunfels
In New Braunfels Texas on a Friday afternoon Carlos Quiroz a 14 year old Mexican boy was killed when struck by a car near his home about six miles from town. His body was found near a cane patch after walking from a mailbox. Police investigate and have not yet identified the driver.
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New Braunfels
Tex
Carlos Quiroz
Hold Up Man Gets 25 Years for Killing
Wichita Falls Texas May 26 Jack Nagie was found guilty of murder and sentenced to 25 years after a jury deliberated about an hour. Nagie shot Theodore Zimmermann during an attempted holdup on April 13. He requested a suspended sentence claiming the shooting was accidental.
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Wichita Falls
Tex
Jack Nagie
89Th District Court
Nagie
Theodore Zimmermann
Zimmermann
Bodyguard of Stonewall Jackson Dies at 79 in Texas
Lockhart Tex May 27 Harry C McClausland Confederate veteran 79 born Staunton Va 1849 died here Saturday He was first cousin to Gen John C McClausland and joined Company H fifth Virginia Volunteer Infantry at age 13 paroled by General Grant April 18 1865 He served as Stonewall Jacksons bodyguard throughout the Confederate years.
Woman and child drown when car plunges into Trinity River
Mrs Barney Owens 33 and her seven year old daughter, both of Athens, drowned when their automobile rammed a bridge rail and plunged into the Trinity River between Seagoville and Cramdall, about 25 miles southwest of Dallas. Owens husband escaped with severe injuries as the scene was recovered two hours later.
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Dallas
Tex
Barney Owens
Athens
Trinity River
Seagoville
Cramdall
Here
Parachute Jump Tragedy Near Kerrville Ends in Death
Howard Helton 33 of San Antonio died after leaping 1500 feet when his parachute failed to deploy during an air circus near Kerrville Texas. He had earlier flown with pilots Harry Phelps Jr and Whitey Powers and did not don the parachute before exit. Helton, a World War II flyer with vast experience, is survived by his sister and parents and will be buried in Stilwell Oklahoma.
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Kerrville
Tex
Howard
Helton
Inlaw
O. H. Kilpatrick
West
Summit Avenue
San Antonio
Harry T. Phelps Jr
West Evergreen Street
Whitey
Powers
Tampico, Mex
Kelley Field
Phelps
J. P. Helton
Stilwell, Oklo
Stilwell
Smiths to Build 2 Million Dollar Cement Plant
San Antonio will begin construction on a 2,000,000 cement plant employing several hundred workers. Judge J W Young and J H Smith announce land acquisition near the Austin Highway with plans for water works and sewer disposal. Richard K Meade notes high quality cement material locally. A separate company will operate the plant as it aims to turn the area toward industrial prominence. Terrell Bartlett and other engineers tour the U S for plant data and expect to return next week.
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San Antonio
J. W. Young
Smith Bros. Properties, Inc
United States
Missouri-Kansas-Texas
Missouri Pacific
Austin
Mercury Reaches 103 in Fort Worth May Heat Record
Fort Worth Texas May 27 a 108 degree high set a new heat record for this date as the afternoon sun burned down across the city.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Firemen Injured in Paint House Fire in Wichita Falls
Two firemen were injured in a blaze causing an explosion that wrecked the Landon Hill Company and the Sherwin Williams Paint Company in Wichita Falls Texas. Damage is estimated between 60 000 and 12 000 dollars.
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Wichita Falls
Tex
Landon Hill Company
Sherwin Williams Paint Company
High School Graduate Wounded by Accidental Shooting in Waelder
Miss Anna Grace Cockrill, a Waelder high school graduate and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Cockrill, was accidentally shot in the leg when a small caliber pistol discharged while a boy friend toyed with it. The bullet passed through the limb and the injury is not serious.
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Waelder
Tex
Anna Grace Cockrill
A. A. Cockrill
Modern Hotel Planned for New Braunfels After Subscriptions
A meeting of hotel company subscribers at the courthouse secured 145000 in funding for a fireproof hotel in New Braunfels. Officers elected were Emil Fisher as president Walter Faust as vice president B W Nuhn as secretary treasurer with directors Fisher Faust Nuhn A B Pfeuffer Adolf Henne Bob Gode J R Fuchs I A Ogden Emil Heinen. Negotiations proceed with hotel firms to lease the property on the old Faust homestead site on Seguin Avenue.
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New Braunfels
Tex
Emil Fisher
Walter Faust
B. W. Nuhn
Pfeuffer
Adolf Henne
Bob Gode
J. R. Fuchs
I. A. Ogden
Emil Heinen
Faust
Seguin Avenue
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Schandua & Reichenau
Kor
Juenke & Schoenewolf
General Merchants
Stonewall Jackson
Heston
Schandur & Reichenau
TIN Metal and
H. Kuenemann
Mr. Farmer and
Stockman
Fredericksburg Publishing Co
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