Five Texas oil firms pay April gasoline taxes totals
The five largest Texas refiners paid 1,066,465.38 in gasoline taxes for April, down 47,419.50 from March, with an estimated April total near 1.5 million. Distributions: Gulf Refining 325,716.15 Texas Company 301,803.96 Magnolia Petroleum 253,012.92 Pierce Petroleum 100,240.92 Humble Oil 85,691.43. Also, Scotty Williams, 10, drowned at Forest Park swimming pool in Fort Worth. rescue attempts failed.
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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
$4,000,000 Road Contracts Let By State Commission
The state highway commission closed a two day session by authorizing about $4,000,000 in new construction and maintenance work in 17 counties. Contracts totaling about $1,813,000 covered paving, new bridges and grading and drainage, with supplemental maintenance for 151 miles. Over $1,000,000 in construction was contracted Thursday.
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State Highway Commission
Commission
Lutheran Pastors Assigned to Texas from Several Seminaries
Twelve graduates from Lutheran seminaries in St. Louis Springfield and Seward are assigned to Texas. Names and destinations include G Heinemeyer to San Antonio Hellbusch to San Antonio W E Meyer to Denton Carl Kasper to Texarkana B Wagner to Albany A Bruns to Vanderbilt A Buchschaecher 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 Texas
St. Louis
Springfield
Ill
Seward
Neb
Lutheran Bureau
J. W Kehnken
Houston
G. Heinemeyer
Hellbusch
San Antonio
W. E. Meyer
Denton
Carl Kasper
Texarkana
B. Wagner
Albany
A. Bruns
Vanderbilt
A. Buchschaecher
Loraine
O. Shriner
Smithville
H. Stroebel
Goose Creek
C. Wolf
Three Rivers
J. Baden
Houston Heights
W. Meissner
San Angelo Slayer Appeals Death Case
Floyd Newton Byrnes 24, convicted in San Angelo of murder in the slaying of 12 year old Myrna Juergens, daughter of W J Juergens, and given the death penalty, filed appeal Friday in the Court of Criminal Appeals. The tragedy occurred at the home of the girl’s parents on March 3, 1928.
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Austin
Texas
Floyd Newton Byrnes
San Angelo
Myrna Juergens
W. J. Juergens
Court of Criminal Appeals
Byrnes
Juergens
Myrna
J. W. Juerges
Rosa Schirra
Schirra
Taylor Man Killed by Mexican in Texas Murders
Double murder case in Taylor and San Angelo linked to Mexican suspect. In San Angelo Floyd Byrnes was convicted for the slaying of Myrna Juergens and faces electrocution after appealing to the Court of Criminal Appeals. In Taylor a farmer Arthur Bunnell was shot five times by a Mexican suspect found near Austin, with no witnesses.
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Taylor
Texas
Arthur Bunnell
Williamson County
Austin
Bunnell
Pumphrey
Frank
Sam Bunnell
Bess Bunnell
Henry Hodges
West
U S Demands Atonement for Slaver Murder in China Note
The United States, amid the arrival of Dr. D C Wu, demands arrest and execution of Nationalist soldiers who killed American missionary Dr Walter F Seymour at Tsinging on April 16. It also seeks punishment for officers who failed to apprehend them and allowed looting of the mission. Indemnities may be sought for the killing and looting. A second missionary death at Tian is under investigation.
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Presbyterian Mission
Tsinging
Seymour
Feng Yu-Lsiang
Tsiwan
Japan
United States
Dr. Seymour
China
William T. Hobart
Tian
State Department
Washington
Paris
Senate
House Foreign Committee
de Laval
de Lavals
Boulder dam bill retains its place in Senate
Washington May 26 The Boulder Canyon dam bill held its top spot in the Senate with a 44 to 22 vote to keep the measure ahead of the administration’s 274 million dollar naval construction plan. Proponents defeated moves to move the cruiser bill and Army promotion matter, preserving Boulder dam as unfinished business into adjournment and signaling its return possible when Congress reconvenes in December. Johnson and La Follette pressed for a decision, while filibusters by Ashurst and Hayden persisted on the opposing measures.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
House
Bill Hich
Reed
Pennsylvania
Boulder Dam
Cantor Johnson
Rep
California
Johnson
la Follette
Wisconsin
Congress
Coolidge
Ashurst
Hayden
Arizona
Hail Storm Sweeps Eagle Pass Area Damaging Property
A large hail storm moved through the upper county Monday around 11 o clock, destroying vegetation and stripping mesquite trees. It tore roofs from buildings at the Rycade oil wells 20 miles northeast, shattered windows and damaged trucks. News from Mr. Phoenix says the cloud looked angry and was visible from the city.
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Eagle Pass
Texas
Phoenix
Rycade Oil Wells
Murderer confesses to kidnapping and slaying Dorothy Sielagowski
Toledo police report Charles Sloppe a 26 year old taxi driver confessed to abducting seven year old Dorothy Sielagowski from her home and strangling her. He admitted burying bloodstained clothing and the plaster cast of footprints matched his teeth. The girl was taken from her bed about 4 am and dumped on the porch of her uncle across the street.
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Toledo
Ohio
Charles Sloppe
John Hovey
Dorothy Sielagowski
Sloppe
Sielagowski
Hovy
Hoppe
Joseph Skibinski
Dorothy
Wink town blaze wipes out seven stores in Dynmite sparked inferno
In Pyote Texas on May 24 seven store buildings in Wink were destroyed by fire. With no local fire department, residents fought the flames until they burned through more than half the town's business block. The fire started from a cigarette in rubbish and dynamite was used to halt spread. No insurance covered the structures.
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Pyote
Texas
Wink
Here
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