Pork prices reach record highs in Chicago area
Wholesale pork in Chicago on August 14 rose to 29.50 per hundred pounds, more than tripling in two years. Yesterday’s jump added 23 dollars over the 5.50 low from 1993. Causes cited include last year’s drought and hog feed shortages, with the Agricultural Adjustment Act program also noted. Secretary Wallace argued the pig purchase program kept consumer costs from rising further.
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Henry Wallace
Ty Ee
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Teachers to Hold Hays Convention in San Marcos
Rural and independent school officials from 26 counties will meet at Southwest Texas Teachers College on Friday to discuss educational problems. State Superintendent L. A. Woods called the session. Speakers include C. E. Evans Wands C. M. Elwell and S. O. Murdock from the education department.
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Southwest Texas Teachers’ College
L. A. Woods
Austin
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Wands
C. M. Elwell
S. O. Murdock
Noth
Education Department
Holmes to Hear Rate Case In San Antonio
United States District Judge Edwin Holmes of Yasco City Mississippi will hear additional testimony in San Antonio next Tuesday on the seven year rate litigation with Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. Special city counsel Carl Wright Johnson said Holmes will personally hear the case after the Mississippi court held for the city but an appeals court remanded for more testimony. Johnson noted the special master Ker i Dibveil is deceased and the city asks that no successor be appointed to the master role. The suit seeks about 3 million dollars allegedly overcharged on rates.
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Suguin
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San Antonio voters back repeal of state liquor ban
Mayor C K Quin predicted a landslide in the August 24 special election with about 720000 city votes for repeal of the state prohibition law seven constitutional amendments on the ballot. Tax Commissioner Bushick endorsed repeal and urged shaping the law to allow city liquor revenues. City commissioners, including Phil Wright, gave cautious or no comment on campaigns for repeal.
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C. K. Quin
Quin
Frank H. Bushick
Bushick
Austrian General Seized by Czechs
Marienbad Czechoslovakia Aug 14 Rudolf Kraus 12 a former general of the imperial army of Austria was arrested today on demand of the Czechoslovakian ministry of defense. Officials refused to charge him but rumors linked him to the former chief of staff of the Fourth Imperial Austro Hungarian army in World War I. He played a leading role in the victory at Ramarow.
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Czechoslovakia
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Austria
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Curley Stands Put on German Protest in Boston
In Boston on August 4, Governor Curley and Speaker Saltonstall defended Massachusetts residents right to express opinion on a debate regarding alleged racial and religious persecution in Germany. They sent letters to Baron Kurt von Tippelmirch, the German consul general, urging free expression amid global concern.
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Leverett Saltenstall
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Transient Killed in Texas Gun Fight
An unidentified transient was killed and Will Melton, 54, son of a former Texas Tanger and night watchman at Frost, 24 miles north of Herr, was critically wounded in a gun fight early today in Corsicana Texas.
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Will Melton
Frost
Herr
300 Almost Lose Their Shirts
In TAVANA on August 4 more than 200 men paid fines rather than repudiate sleeveless shirts with slide fasteners. They were hauled into police headquarters following orders from Eleut Cat wose Pedraza, the thief of the national police, who targeted coats and sleeveless garments as an offense against public morals after the war with Spain.
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Joan Ard
Eleut
Cat Wose Pedraza
Poliee
Pedraza
Spain
Detroit youth and three women await life sentence in Dickinson killing
In Detroit a 27 year old Hoodlum William Schweitzer and three frail women Florence and Loretta Jackson and Jean Milter face life imprisonment after a jury found them guilty of killing New York attorney Howard Carter Dickinson. They will be sentenced before Judge John A. Boyne. Schweitzer could be sent to Marquette prison while the women are to Detroit House of Correction. A rattlesnake incident in Karnes City left an 11 year old boy wounded but expected to recover.
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Howard Carter Dickinson
New York
John A. Boyne
William Schweitzer
Alias Ferrs
Marquette
Michigan
Siberia
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Loretta Jackson
Jean Milter
Nazi free Canadian released by German secret police
Dr Gebhard Mos, a naturalized Canadian, arrested for remarks on Germanys anti Semitic campaign, was released unconditionally today by the German secret police in Munich.
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Germany
Gebhard Mos
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