Texas Revenue Bills Advance In Texas Legislature
The Quinn sulphur tax bill and Culp marriage license and divorce tax measures pass favorably through the house revenue committee. Dinkle income tax bill gains steady support with only one change to railroads. The session features brief senate activity and ongoing revenue bill deliberations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
House Committee On Revenue and Taxation
Texas
Revenue Committee
Dinkle
House
Senate
Collins
Baker
Baldwin
Darwin
State Affairs Committee
House Revenue Committee
Neff
I. E. Clark
Fayette County
Stuart of Tarrant
Floyd
Perdue
Pope
Smith
H. Je Lewis
Grimes ‘County
Joe Burkett
Eastland
Patman
Hardin
Erath
Quinn
Culp
Downs
Melson
R Emaster
Purl
Mitchell County
Washington Seeks Abiding Peace Through Disarmament
Nation voices assurances of peace and mutual confidence with major powers in the Pacific. The Washington arms conference is praised for scrap distrust and ending costly competition, while preserving American traditions of freedom from alliance and equal opportunity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific
Aahleviniee
Washington
Wéssely
School House Fire Claims Many Lives in Camden
A Cleveland school building fire killed seventy three people, including forty one children, when an oil lamp ignited draperies during a commencement playlet. The mass tragedy left a crowded auditorium of about 800 panicked, many trapped by a collapsed stairway and engulfed in flames. Governor McLeod attended the funeral effort as the county organized identifications and burials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camden
S. C
Cleveland
McLeod
South Carolina
Shippers Must Slat Cars for Melons
The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled Texas railroad regulations requiring shippers to slat stock cars for watermelons unlawful. It found the rule caused unjust discrimination in interstate commerce and ordered the proceeding discontinued. The Texas commission had argued railroads must furnish suitable cars, while the shipper must prepare goods. the dissenters were Daniels and Potter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Texas Railroad Commission
Texas
Interstate Commerce Commission
Texas Commission
Interstate Commission
Daniels
Potter
Captive Released With Message
Marcel Berube of Shanghai was unconditionally released by the Suchow bandits. He arrived at Lincheng after being freed on a brief parole amid the bandits ultimatum to withdraw Chinese troops or American and British hostages would be shot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pekin
Marcel Berube
Shanghai
Lincheng
Railway Consolidation Approved in Washington
Inter state commerce commission proposals to consolidate major railways including Baltimore and Ohio with Philadelphia and Reading Central New Jersey Chicago Indianapolis and Louisville and other minor lines received general approval in a statement by Daniel Willard president of the B&O at hearings before the commission.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Baltimore’, &‘ Ohio
Philadelphia
Reading
Central
New Jersey
Chicago
Indianapolis
Louisville
Daniel Willard
Be& O
High Import Duty Hits Vladivostok Retail Prices
Prices of clothing and other necessities have surged from 100 to 200 percent in Vladivostok due to high import duties and a prohibition on many manufactured goods. The measure raises living costs for residents and traders amid ongoing policy changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vladivostok
Irish Deportees Return to Dublin from Holyhead
More than a hundred persons rounded up in England during the Irish troubles last March were transported to Dublin and arrived in Holyhead on Friday, signaling a new phase in the internment and repatriation process.
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Holyhead
Wales
England
Dublin
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Bonham
Ridgeway
State Park Board
James J. Ferguson
Wirte
Henderson
Wood
Turner
Covey
Conference Committee
Murphy
Conference’committee
Ferguson
Capitol
Sal Ry
M. College
Insurance Department
America
Hughes
OUR Comic
Kenneth
Eallen Newspaper
Felix
Pete
van Zeni
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