Judge Holmes Rules City Win May Influence National Phone Rates
A Yazoo Mississippi judge ruled for the city in a telephone rate case, signaling a potential nationwide effect on rate making. The decision, while specific, could curb judicial intervention and boost state and municipal rulemaking authority if upheld by higher courts. The opinion cites changes in San Antonio telephony records and notes that original cost is only one value element amid broader testimony.
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Edwin R. Holmes
Yazoo
Miss
Federal Building
Circuit Court
Supreme Court
Holmes
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
New Orleans
Rodka
San Antonio
City Dismisses. Cases Against 70 Taxi Drivers
City court action dismissed about 10 cases against San Antonio taxi operators who were fined 10,000 dollars each for indemnity bonds. Judge Charles J. Matthews approved the dismissal on motion by assistant city attorney William C. Davis to cure objections in new complaints, with arrests to resume. The report notes objections to form and references to appraisal and book cost findings in a separate telephone company dispute with Western Electric testimony.
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Corporation Court
San Antonio
Charles J. Matthews
County Court-at-Law No
William ¢. Davis
Tity
Telephone Company
Western Electric
RB. H. Gregory
Western Electric Company
Hooks
Bell
Explanation of Judge 3 Opinion on Western Electric Costs
The text discusses Judge Holmes on the Western Electric case, noting insufficient proof that profits were fairly charged and detailing concerns about expenses, depreciation, and allocations. It cites the growth of Western Electric under Bell and AT&T, issues of cost allocations, and the burden to segregate properties for local rate regulation.
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American
Bell Companies
Western Electric Company
Ararch
Bell
Plein
Siaster
Snell
Five Pardons Granted by Governor Ferguson
Governor Miriam A Berguvon grants two full pardons and three conditional paroles from the statewide penitentiary. J O Orit of Zandt County receives two years for violating the prohibition law. Town T Morman of Coleman County is sentenced to ten years for related charges. Firings and clemency actions accompany the governor's mercy gestures in this Austin dispatch.
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Ferguson Austin
Miriam A. Berguvon
Mildona
J. O. Orit
Zandt
T. Morman
Coleman County
Dispute Over Telephone Rates Heads Toward Decree
Attorneys discuss preparing a decree based on a court decision. If sides cannot agree on form, both submit their decrees. A decree dismissing the suit would restore old rates, while new rates tentatively stay in effect during appeal. City seeks refunds totaling up to 2 million dollars for overcharges since 1928.
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Holmes
Bubl
Bruce Teagarden
Teagarden
Gail Weight Johnson
C. K. Quin
Quin
Appeal Fails to Shorten Stay of Pair in Bexar Jail
Two youths Jake Boles and Francis Worley pleaded guilty in Justice of the Peace court to unlawfully transporting five game fowl without a permit. They were fined 25 dollars and costs each, or 90 dollars, and their jail stay lapsed as appeals were dismissed. The case timeline includes appeals and potential further action by higher courts, with city officials discussing refunds and rate reductions in related municipal matters.
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Bexar
Brackenridge Park Zoo
Jake Boles
Rigsby Avenue
Francis Worley
Wilkins Avenue
John F. Onion
Charles J. Matthews
Dynamite Cap Injures Workman In City Basin
Domingo Alvarez aged 22 of 717 South Medina street was injured when a dynamite cap exploded while he chopped weeds in Olmos basin Tuesday morning. An employee of the central relief committee he was taken to Robert B. Green hospital with a hole in his left leg.
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Domingo Alvarez
Medina Street
Olmos Basin
Central Relief Committee
Robert “B. Green
Battle in upper Amazon as Colombian and Peruvian forces clash
Feb 21 report from Bogota says new fighting in isolated upper Amazon junglesleft Colombian and Peruvian troops in combat near Batur day night. Peruvian casualties were cited and a Peruvian plane said shot down. A Peruvian garrison at Quepi allegedly attempted to seize a Colombian island in the Putumayo river but was repelled. In Guayaruil, Fabio Lozano Jr., former Colombian minister to Peru, recalls fleeing to Betrador after mobs wrecked his home in Lima.
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Colombia
Amazon Jungles
Batur
War Ministry
Quepi
Putumayo River
Guavaco
Guayaruil
Betrador
Fabio Lozano Jr
Peru
Larano
United States
Ex-Cashier Sentenced in Brownsville Bank Case
E J Tucker former vice president and cashier of the closed Merchants National Bank Brownsville received one month in prison a 1000 fine and a two year suspended sentence after pleading guilty to making false reports to the comptroller of the currency Benito Longoria former assistant cashier was fined 500 and given a two year suspended sentence Indictments against P M Lamberton vice president were dismissed on government motion
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Browneville
E. J. Tucker
Eashier
Merchants National Bank
Brownsville
Benito Longoria
P. M. Lamberton
Chinese teacher walks to Vatican for Holy Year
Milan Italy February 21 Chinese school teacher from Singapore has trekked to Italy after two years of hiking. He plans to reach Rome by April 1 in time for the inauguration of the holy year. The journey emphasizes his determination and pilgrim spirit.
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Milan
Italy
Josseph Louis Vel
Singapore
Pope Pius
Roine
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