Texas Tax Hearings May Fold New State Levy In
Taxpayers from Panhandle to Rio Grande await a House revenue committee hearing over a proposed 7.5 percent sales tax. Governor Ferguson backs the plan amid opposition and charges of demagoguery as senators and lawmakers clash on highway appointments and budget measures. The session features reorganizing proposals, welfare debates, and potential changes to state agencies, with debates on mortgage relief, beer, horse racing, and production taxes shaping the week.
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Texas
House of Representatives
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State Taxpayers Association
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Game, Fish and Oyster Commission
Reclamation Department
Board of Water Engineers
National Congress
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House Judiciary Committee
Preston Anderson
Railroad Commission
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Jacob F. Wolters
The
Texas Company
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Mercury Victims Believed Saved
Rome Georgia February INS reports two young brothers Jimmy Doss four and Clayton two found with cyanide of mercury believed to be candy a slow working poison. Doctors say tests show no trace of the mercury in the children’s systems after hours of treatment.
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INS
Rlwich
Jimmy Doss
Clayton
Trothem
Dutch Officer to Face Court Martial After Mutiny
Dutch officer Cantal Fikenbaum of the battleship De Zeven Provincien is relieved of command and ordered to face court martial after mutineers were killed when a seaplane bomb hit their ship. Twenty-two mutineers died and were buried on Onrust Island as native survivors and Dutch leaders are moved to the island amid a government order to seal it off while mutineers await trial.
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Java
Dutch East, Indies
Cantal Fikenbaum
de Zeven Provincien
Indian Ocean
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Jave
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Sumatra
Onrust
Solatet
Tela
Young Attorney Named to Missouri Supreme Court
Jefferson City Missouri February 31 IN Governor Guy B Park announced at a press conference that Kansas City attorney C A Leedy Sr will be named justice of the Missouri Supreme Court immediately. Leedy aged 37 will succeed the late Judge Clarence Burney who died this week. He will be one of the two youngest men to occupy a supreme court bench in the state.
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C. A. Leedy Sr
Kansas City
Guy B.park
Leedy Anid
Dudge Clarence Burney
Leedy
Bicycle Genius Succumbs in Portland Story
Elbridge Hood Carson, a Rochester New Mexico born bicycle and later motorcycle maker famed for the two wheel tandem and the song inspired design, died at his daughter Maude Corson’s home in Portland on Feb 11 after years of prominence including a Mount Washington coast in 1983.
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Ran
Elbridge Hood Carson
Rochester
Maude Corson
Carson
Mount Washington
Poage bill seeks eight-college higher ed system
Austin Feb 11 An early hearing date is set next week by the senate education committee on Poage's bill to consolidate the state higher education system. The proposal would combine North Texas State Teachers College at Denton with Texas Woman’s College and transfer libraries and equipment of the other seven institutions to the regents of the teachers colleges, leaving them intact.
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Poage Bil
Senate Committee On Education
W. R. Poage
Waco
Joint Legislative Committee On
North Texas State Teachers College
Texas Women's College
Denton
Farm Machinery Prices Based on Produce Estimate
RACINE Wis Feb 11 VIs in its efforts to stimulate 1993 cases the J J Cuse company of this city will offer its farm customers a price commodity guarantee plan based on specific prices to be used on case lateral for notes submitted in payment of merchandine it was announced today The plan is based on cent wheat 43 cent corn and 12 cent New Orleans cotton It will apply to 1938 autumn payments on merchandise purchased this year At the time of pole inalustry the commodity prices have not reached guaranteed levels the customers will be created with the differential between the actual and promised prices on larger orders The differential of small orders will be halved
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J. J. Cuse Company
New Orleans
Confidence Remedy of U S Steel Boss Draws Rebuke
William A. Irvin president of United States Steel tells American business leaders there is no quick fix for the nation’s doldrums. He denounces half baked panaceas and communistic doctrines as dangerous.
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Managee
Miami Beach
Pia. Pet
Wiliam A. Irvin
United States Steel Corporation
Army Orders and Personnel Notes From The War Desk
Fragmented dispatch lists army postings and officer movements including Washington based detachments, Canada postings, Philadelphia to Fort Remble, Huntington to Limwut, and Panama shifts. The garbled text mentions officers such as James KB Bart, Humphreys, and Reld from a light ad notice seeking a large desk blotter at The Light counter on Broadway.
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Ban Tranders
Ly Hawa Taen
Tawtalen
Huntington
Francia WH
Panama
James KB
Bart
A. O
A.C Ragedolph
Broadway
Fifth Street
City News Special dance Sunday night at Feet Hall
Sunday night dances fill Feet Hall with prizes and live music. Ample prize packages from Artnt Ady and Sul. and Sui. Alles. The Black Diamonds and Willet Orchestra perform with admission near two dollars. Tuesday shows and masquerade events teased with plans for future dates and guest orchestras.
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Artnt
Ady
Danceland
Sul
Sui. Alles
Black Diamonds
Battle of Music
Ab Marnew
Willet Orchestra
tAdvd
Clashes enliven Texas probe on railroad proration
Austin Feb 1 Two clashes heated an otherwise routine hearing of the legislative committee Investigating Answers as the railroad commission enforced proration in East Texas. Rep Gordon Burns attacked lack of investigation into Conroe and Raccoon Bend fields while clerical tense remarks sparked a second clash with clerk B F Fortner. The dispute touched on questioning methods, vacations used for political ends, and hearsay evidence. Attorney General Advised adherence to general rules of evidence.
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Linsi
Legislative Committee
Railroad Commission
East Texas
Gordon Burns
Conroe
Raccoon Bend
Standard ‘Ol
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Standard
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J. M Poley
Foley
Fortner
Sherlock Holmes
Quade
C. F. Chastain
Eastland
Chastain
Rairoad Commission
Latham
House
Commission
Bob Long
State of
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Electioncor
Adred
Polite bandit spares Texaco operator after road map request
W F Yoehle, operator of a Texaco station at 2118 South Flores Street, told a bandit he had no money Saturday night. The armed suspect asked for a road map, then, after Yoehle’s plea for mercy, quietly apologized and walked away. The incident was reported to police.
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Texaco
South Flores Street
Yoehle
Yoehie
Police Recapture Escaped Prisoner After Ventilator Escape
A 33 year old black male prisoner who escaped from the city jail by climbing through a ventilator on January 28 was recaptured by police Saturday night. Two other escapees remain at large, police said.
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Three-Cent Robbery Strikes Shanghai Bank Office
Shanghai dip notes February 31 192? report that local bandits stage a desperate raid in a bank office, pulling a small cash stash of copper coins. Police search for suspects as details remain sketchy amid the chaotic incident.
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China
Rickstin Bor
Thompson for Graduated Oil Tax as Proration Cure
AUSTIN February 11 Emesh Thompson, a railroad commissioner, urged a graduated oil production tax as a proration enforcement cure. Addressing the Texas Press Association, he proposed a 10 cent per barrel rate with higher charges for greater output, noting the state would gain substantial revenue and production would drop accordingly. Bills reflecting this idea, previously proposed by James B Ferguson, are before the legislature.
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Austin
Emesh
Texas Press Association
James B. Ferguson
Lindbergh Kidnap Plot Arrests In Roanoke Tightened
The Justice Department reports an all-time case against three men and one woman arrested in Roanoke Virginia last Thursday. They allegedly planned to extort ten thousand dollars from Charles A Lindbergh. An agent said the trio and one wife appear not connected to the Lindbergh baby kidnapping. They will be arraigned Monday before a U.S. commissioner and then be held for the grand jury.
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Department of Justice
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Cal
Charles A Lindbergh
Justice Department
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Edgar J. Hoover
Bureau of Investigation
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Irio
Joe Bryant
Noman Harvey
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United States
Mon
Fay
Kelli
Knife Attack Leaves Man Near Death in Hospital
Joan Seoth M. of 427 Devers Street was gravely wounded by a knife attack at Twen Meth and West Commerce Streets. He told police an unknown Mexican spoke Spanish, then stabbed him five times before he walked to J. BR. Sonley at 803 South Tworky Fourth Street to report the assault.
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Devers Street
Robert B. Green
Balarday
Twen Meth
West Commerce
Scott
J. BR. Sonley
South Tworky Fourth Street
Insurance Firms Ordered to File Monthly Reports
Chicago February 1933 Ernest Fulmer new head of the state insurance department ordered all life and fire insurance firms to file monthly reports detailing financial transactions. The mandate requires reports by March 15 covering the first quarter of 1933 and affects legal reserve, life and fraternal associations.
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ING
Curb Insurance Company
Ernest Fulmer
State Insurance Department
Brazen car prowler caught in the act on city streets
A Mexican car prowler was seen near St. Mary's and Crockett streets Saturday night by Patrolman R. R. Lowe. He was caught stealing grips and other items from parked cars, and in the pursuit dumped his foot into a truck. The truck itself was later found stolen.
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St. Mary's
Crockett Streets
R. R. Lowe
Auto Hit Man Injured In Street Collision
A man identified as A, MJ let 87, of 192 South Cherry street, sustained severe injuries when an automobile struck him Saturday night at Swiss and Maree streets. He was transported to his home for treatment. Four bandits robbed the Public Service company office in Terre Haute and escaped with 2000 dollars.
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Swiss
Com~maree
Terre Haute
Ind
Public Service Company
Anderson bill ruling given
Austin February 11 A ruling by Assistant Attorney General Sloney Benbow discusses Representative P L Anderson of San Antonio proposing repeal of the Robertson Insurance law The ruling notes that foreign insurers which left Texas after the Robertson act may owe taxes on premiums since withdrawal dates It is unclear which companies would owe back taxes but collection could be tied to reentry as a license fee or similar precondition.
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Austin
P. L. Anderson
San Antonio
Assislant
Sloney Benbow
Attorney General's Department
Texas
Avas
Anderson
Benbow
I Benhow
Land Debt Report Details Texas Public School Funds
In a preliminary report to the Texas Legislature State Auditor Moori Tyo outlines the land debt related to Texas public school funds. The two year study by T J Topp includes hundreds of pages listing debtors with small sums, totaling 1 954 082 dollars, owed to the state.
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INS
Texas
Todi
Btnte
Moori Tyo Ag
T. J. Topp
Chengeregate
Insanity Pleas Advanced in Cult Sacrifice Killing
In Inez Kentucky six members of a religious cult were ordered held for a special grand jury after arraignment on charges of killing Mrs Oncinda Mills 72 mother of their leader in a sacrifice ritual John H Mills 32 pleaded not guilty by reason of temporary insanity along with several clan members at the mountain side cabin scene where an improvised altar was found.
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Kentucky
Oncinda Mills
Johm HA. Mills
Sardby
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