Hearing Set Wednesday on FamtaK Sat Irrigation Case
Federal Judge Duval West orders two hearings Wednesday on a $334 07 tax claim by the Medina Atascosa Counties Water Improvement District No 1 surrounding no land for 1926 28 30 31 taxes. Hugh Robertson represents amended intervention as to the taxes due. The district owns Medina Lake and the dam with miles of waterways, and Winston Wheeler of Wheeler Kelly Heeny Trust may attend.
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San Antonio
Duvald West
Robertson
West
Water District
Medina Iske
Water Company
Monthey
Winston Wheeler
Wheeler
Wichita
Kan
Wife takes overdose after husband urges suicide in York report
Mrs Dorothea McDonnell, a socially prominent young woman, killed herself on her husband’s urging to hit Nersen so he could be free. She swayed in her bathroom and said, I’ve done it, I can’t go on. An overdose of sleeping potion proved fatal despite a doctor’s efforts to save her.
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York
uNai
Apg
Nersen
Dorothea McDonnell
Clues Sought in Theater Bombing in Borger
Police in Borger Texas hunted for leads after a bomb damaged the Rex theater early today with an estimated $6000 in destruction. Investigators said the device was lowered through a vent shaft in the roof as a theater bombing inquiry widened.
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Borger
Texas
INS
Rex
One Cent a Day Insurance Offer Promoted in Ad
The Postal Life and Casualty Ins Co of Kansas City promotes an accident policy paying up to 100 monthly for disability and 1000 death benefit, costing about 2.50 yearly. Over 148,000 buyers, women and children eligible. Send name, address, age, bevel age and relationship. no money needed. Limited offer. write today.
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Postal Life & Casualty Insure Co
Kansas City
Alford Killer Held in Jail in Artesia Wells Case
Jose Garcia, a tenant farmer, is held in LaSalle county jail on bond facing charges tied to the death of Lynn Alford near Artesia Wells. Garcia, who confessed to a fatal quarrel with Alford, was captured on a Mexican ranch and surrendered to local authorities at Eagle Pass.
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Cotulla
Jose Garcia
LaSalle County
Jamareet
Artesia Wells
Lynn Alford
San Antonio
Garcia
Alford
Tom Leech
Falal
Mexico
la Sualla
Eagle Pass
Morton Campbell Claims Kidnapping
Morton Campbell, freed on $500 bond after a Brownsville prohibition violation conviction, is jailed in Laredo awaiting commitment papers to federal penitentiary for two years. He alleges kidnapping by Mexican immigration officers at Monterrey and transport to Nueva Laredo before Nuevo Laredo officers handed him to American authorities.
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Morton Campbell
Laredo
United States
Brownsville
Campbell
Monterrey
Nueva Laredo
Nuevo Laredo
Buck Junior Ma Champion Unosins
Robert Buck, 18, American flyer, returns from a record flight Newark to Mexico City, landing at Winburn field at 5 00 p m Saturday. He plans to fly to Los Angeles after overnight in Cincinnati hotel, then to Cleveland for the air derby. His trip Mexico City to San Antonio was noted with cold mountain flying and a thirst quench on arrival.
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Junior Pilets
Mexico City
Newark
Winburn Field
Tampico
Brownsville
Los Angeles
Pitcairn
Jost Ishermal
San Antonio
Mexico
New York University
Guiter
Big Springs
el Paso
Cleveland
Youth Arrested in Attempted Robbery of Local Couple
A juvenile bandit who tried to rob Mr. and Mrs. C. G. M. Cameron at their Yucca Street home on May 23 was arrested Saturday night by motorcycle officers B. F. Jackson and Bob Hubertson on his way back from El Paso. Cameron wrestled a pistol from the robber after a shot grazed Mrs. Cameron, and the suspect, once an employee at the Better Home Ice Cream Factory, fled but was later captured.
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M. Cameron
Yucca Street
St Ia
B. F. Jackson
Bob Hubertson
el Paso
Mrs. Cameron
Cameron
Medal of Honor Hero Weld Returns to Duty at Fort Sam Houston
Major Seth J. Weld, once a corporal defending against about forty Pulajanes at Ta Pas Leyte in 1906, received the Medal of Honor for gallantry. Now serving as assistant chief of staff G-4 at Eighth Corps area headquarters, he reports to Fort Sam Houston after Tank School at Fort Meade.
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Beth L. Weld
Fort Sam Houston
Philippines
Seth J. Weld
Fort Bam
Houston
Hsistant Chie
G-4
Eighth Corps
Weld
Eighth Infantry
Congress
Constabulary
Ta Pas
Leyte
Philippine Islands
Fort Sam ‘Houston
Tank School
Fort Meade
Mary Hay Bath Agree on Divorce
New York Aug 13 Mary Hay dancer and former wife of Richard Barthelmess said she and her second husband David Bath had agreed on an amicable separation She planned to go to Paris soon to institute alimony proceedings
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Mary Hay
Bath
New York
Marty Hay
Richard Barthelmiss
David Bath
Miss Hay
Paris
Weather and Precautions Reported Across Regions
A highly garbled weather page lists temperatures and forecasts for multiple locations including Oklahoma Texas and surrounding areas. It references precautionary measures and possible precipitation while naming several towns and cities in a storm advisory context.
Mile Gale Whips Texas Coast Town
A powerful Mile Gale battered the Texas coast town as the Santa Fe Railway organized a special train to evacuate campers and residents to Houston. Four men, including W. E. Hampton and Judge Sam Streetman, were unreported but believed safe after sailing from Port Pearceport. two others’ names were not learned. Angleton remained cut off with no lines to the town. The storm’s worst was likely past Houston, near the hurricane’s rim, with winds near 48 mph at midnight after reaching 72 mph and gusts of 85 mph. Many plate glass windows shattered, but overall property damage was not heavy.
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Santa Fe Railroad
Houston
W. E. Hampton
Sam Streetman
Preeport
Angleton
Tnal
Weather Bureau
Storm reports find no damage in Galveston up to 8 p.m
Dispatchers for the Katy Railroad report no damage in Galveston from the storm as of 8 p.m. A Katy train left Galveston at 7 o'clock and found water rising in the lower parts of the town while crossing the viaduct two feet below the roadway. Waves sprayed the train as it passed.
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Galveston
Clef
Katy
Smithville
Callveston
At & O'Clock
Houston Amateur Radio Wind Blaze Halts 11 p.m. Contact
A Houston amateur station at Fort Sam Houston reported 50 to 80 mile per hour winds and a power outage near 11 p.m. The operator noted wind speeds from 60 to 80 mph, stalled cars on the Galveston causeway, and failed attempts to reach Galveston operators. San Antonio stations heard water splashing over the causeway, partly blocked by wrecked vehicles.
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Fort Sam -Houston
Houston
Galveston Causeway
Galveston
San Antonio
Causeway
Corpus Expected to Escape Storm
Corpus may avoid the tropical storm sweeping the Texas coast. Late tonight skies were clear with no storm indications though rising winds and possible rain could come. Victoria reported no effects from the storm as of 11 o clock tonight.
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Corpus
Wnhpas
Crriori
Texas
Galveston
Victoria
Texas Gulf Coast
Freaport
Bishop Returns to Church After Claimed Kidnaping
Bishop Elias Montoya of the Mexican Apostolic Catholic church says he was kidnapped from his church by three men and held all day and night before escaping along the Pria City road. He reported the incident to police and was later greeted by about 150 congregants at mass with armed protection.
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Elias Montoya
Mexican Apostolic Catholic
Pria
Kirk Place
Illegal Vote Probe Will Be Continued
LONGVIEW Texas Aug 1 Promising a continuation of a sweeping investigation interlaced irregularities in the first primary in Gregg county District Attorney John E B Taylor issued a statement here this afternoon blaming apparent illegal voting to part time workers from other states There were more than so more voters crab in Gregg county than poll taxes paid recording in Taylor who emitted a table giving the number of votes craft and the number of poll taxes for four East Texas counties
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Longview
Texas
Gregg County
John EB. Taylor
Greg
Taylor
East Texas
Silk Purse From Sow's Ear in Wall Street Fight Over Transit Fares
The piece accuses Wall Street bankers of opposing Mayor Walker over transit fare policy, arguing their persistent public plunderers manipulated public funds to advance reformers' agendas. It portrays Walker’s conduct as overshadowed by Wall Street opposition and speculative allegations with little substantive evidence.
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Wall Street
New York City
Walker
Veterans Bureau Work Outlined At Legion Luncheon
L C Chapman manager of the Veterans Bureau in San Antonio will discuss what the bureau does for ex service men during the weekly luncheon of the Business and Professional Men's Post of the American Legion at the St Anthony hotel Monday.
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Veterans’ Bureau
Veterans' Bureau
L. C. Chapman
Veterans’ Hiréatt
San Antonin
The
American Legion
St. Anthony Hotel
Sigma Delta Phi Winners Triumph in City Dancing Championship
The Sigma Delta Phi Saturday team won the inter fraternity dancing championship on the Flaza hotel roof. Johnny Huntress and Fay Davidson led the champions. Eva Park and George Barnett for Zeta Phi Gamma were runners up with Ralph Webster also noted for his performance.
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Sigma Delta Phi
Johnny Huntress
Fay Davidson
Flaza
Sigma Rho Sorority
Eva Park
George Barnett
Zeta Phi Gamma
Ralph Webster
Early Walker Decision Seen
Albany August 13 Governor Roosevelt expects a definite decision on removal proceedings against Mayor Jones J Walker of New York before the presidential election. Attorney General John Bennett to go into court next Friday as Secretary Donnely seeks a writ. Walker rests at a Larchmont estate while Roosevelt flies between Hyde Park and his country home.
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Albany
N. Y
Jones J. Walker
New York
Roosevelt
John Bennett
George Donnely
Bronx Chamber, of Commerce
Walker
Larchmont
N.Y
Hyde Fark
Dogen
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