Lyan Urges Tax Board Authority for Statewide Assessments
Austin August 1 In steaed authority for the state tax board to provide a more efficient assessment and collection system State Auditor Moore Lynn recommended empowering the board to determine taxable value for intangible assets and to assess properties under public utilities railroads pipelines and select light and power companies The plan would distribute property values by county and tie into franchise tax reports income tax returns and other state filings to improve ad valorem taxation across the state and aid local assessors in evaluating utility properties and other valuables
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Moore Lynn
Lynn
State Tax Board
Wold
Atate
Observatory contract likely awarded soon for Texas-Chicago project
AUSIN Aug 7 Plans for the University of Texas astronomical observatory on Mount Locke in the Davis Mountains near Marfa awaited action by a regents sub committee. The committee could award the contract this week with bids indicating a cost between 300000 and 400000 dollars including the telescope. The observatory was provided for in the late W J McDonald of Paris Texas will.
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Ausiin
University of Teans
Mount Locke
Davis Mountains
Marfa
Board of Regents
Tegents
Baburday
W. J. McDonald
Paris
Texas
Nixon’s Nixoderm Skin Remedy Claim Ad
An ad touts Nixon's Nixoderm as a fast heal for skin conditions like itch or eczema with a money back guarantee. It mentions a famed English skin specialist and urges readers to ask local druggists for the product today.
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Nixon
Tlon
Bommers
Poison Snake Fatalities Halt Texas Lecture
Colonel Crimmins of San Antonio was bitten by a water moccasin while handling a burlap bag of rattlesnakes for a poisonous demonstration. The bite occurred as he reached for a tool and emergency treatment was given. He was expected to recover as doctors prepared to transport him for further care.
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Martin L. Chiammina
San Anunio
Suffern
N.Y
Martin L. Grimmins
U. S
San Antonio
Texas
Crimmins
Widch
Crivimina
San Andronio
460 Shoe Factory Workers Raised Wage in Major Pact
Carthage Michigan August reports 460 workers at Gatme Shoe Company accept under an agreement for a 40 hour week and a 15 percent wage increase. Treasury receipts show August 4 balance and year totals: receipts 13,298,254.53 expenditures 23,704,571.70, balance 798,545,196.14. Emergency relief charges included 108,873,008.87. Expenditures rose to 157,829,700.16.
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Carthage
Gatme
Ee Micro
Treasury
Washington
D. 6
Sxenss
Chinese Tong Outbreak Revealed After Weeks of Secrets
San Antonio police ended two weeks of secret inquiry with the arrest of a man linked to a Tong suspected in a wave of Chinese thefts. About twenty strangers entered the city, prompting guards for several merchants. Ernest Dee of the On Leong Merchants Association advised police during the Monday arrest. Detectives Gray and Higgins led the probe aided by an interpreter.
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Lves
San Antonio
A. R.’ Gonsales
Smyth Laredo Street
Tong
Ernest Dee
West Commerce Street
On Leong Merchants
Lee
Oringtel
New York
Alton
Gray
Higgins
Coroner's Jury to Probe Party Death of Band Leader
Coroner's Jury will investigate the death of Fortune Nelson Burson a 33 year old San Francisco orchestra leader, after a party at Miss Hiddison's home in Burlingame. Police say a quarrel led to Burson striking Richard Chilcott with a beer bottle, and manslaughter charges were placed.
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Burlingame
Calif
Fortune Nelson
Bunny
Burson
San Francisco
Hhe Tiexoce
Covent
Prince Jack Thewer
Richard Chilcott
Atherton
Epljese
Bursey
Beross & Warbecue
Miss Hiddison
Chileth
Playmate Solves Death Mystery of Calbert Aposhian
In San Diego a playmate told Sheriff Ed Cooper that Calbert Aposhian drowned in a hay bale incident. Medical experts reexamining the body found elements suggesting foul play and mutilation, revising the case as a possible homicide by an unknown assailant.
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San Diego
Cali
Calbert Aposhian
Ed Cooper
San Diego Hay
Dalbert
Jackie Confar
Wife of Gandhi Freed Re-arrested in India
Mrs. Mohandas K Gandhi wife of the nationalist leader and fifteen other women from his college of devotees were released temporarily from Sabarmati jail where they had been imprisoned after Gandhi's arrest on August 1. They refused to go to a designated area and were re-arrested.
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Ahmedabad
India
Mohandas EK. Gandhi
Ile Mahatma's College of Devotees
Sabarmati Jalil
Gandhi
Leaders of Strike Threat Arrested in Oklahoma City
In Oklahoma City on August 10, authorities detained the leaders of a threatened walkout by around 1500 workers. Agitators had urged a strike for higher pay and a six hour day at 40 cents per hour, though workers currently earn $1.25 daily and labor up to sixty days per month.
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Oklahoma City
Pidice
Uhe
Oime
Death Penalty Seen in Hammer Slay Case Near Lilk{n
In the LUPIN area on August 7, Charles Outlaw was sentenced for the murder of Mrs. Freak McCall near Lilk{n last January 24. A jury found Outlaw guilty of murder after a state witness testified he beat McCall and demanded money, with the trial ending shortly after the cust om was received.
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Lupin
Hag Heer
Freak McCall
Outlaw
Megat
Ierney
Vets to Receive Benefit of Doubt Under New Policy
Veterans' Administrator Hines announces a policy to favor veterans in disability determinations. Review boards will pass on cases with a presumption of doubt resolved in the veteran's favor, emphasizing prompt recovery of lost benefits. The message stresses tolerance and quick action, with ad guidance included.
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Washington, D.C
Veterans
Hines Jt
Hines
French City Asks Tariff Cuts Amid Hardships
CALALS France Aug city of 72 000 faced municipal resignations to dramatize hardships from tariffs that threaten exports and jobs. In New York Elisha Lee 63 railroad executive and Pennsylvania Railroad vice president collapsed and died after alighting from a train from Saratoga.
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Calals
France
New York
Elisha Lee
Lee
Saratoga
Pennsylvania Railroad
Ex-State Official Dies of Gun Wound
Peoria Aug 7 64 former director of state funds who faced indictment for failure to turn over state funds died at 4 45 this morning in Milena sanitarium from a self inflected bullet wound. In Innsbruck Austria a fascist auxiliary policeman was killed in an ambush near Kulstelm as uniformed men in steel helmets attacked.
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Dar- Tet
Dy Forrest Hinney
State
Jingoves
Milena
Vatholman
Inssbruck
Austria
Kulstelm
Ofilcia News Ggenicy
Jalor
Kiefersfelien
De Valera Denies Danger to Free State
President De Valera rejects abroad reports that the Free State faced civil war due to armed patrols around a hotel. The denial comes amid claims of interned threats, with officials urging calm and defense readiness.
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Dualln
de Velera
Monsense
Nish Free State
Plate Hultel- Angs
Canadian Storm Ravages Manitoba and Saskatchewan
WINNIPEG Aug. 1 The violent electrical storms sweeping Manitoba and Saskatchewan over the weekend caused widespread destruction. Crops were damaged power and communication lines were broken and extensive property damage reported across the region.
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Winnipeg
Bevorce
Maniitoba
Sackatchesui
Flood Recedes in Western Kansas
Floodwaters which swept over western Kansas Saturday receded leaving extensive property and crop damage and at least one death reported as authorities assess the aftereffects in Marysville and surrounding areas.
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Sodurity
Han
Set~ Toms
Mlyestoc
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