State highway plan urged to prioritize main arteries
Austin February 27 The legislative committee on organization and economy urged classifying state highways and finishing primary traffic arteries first without regional bias. It called budgeting by annual work programs tied to the highway system plan and limited by expected revenues with yearly appropriations to advance the larger plan in logical sequence, criticizing current budgeting as economically sacrificed to keep contracts small.
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Legislative Committee On Organization and Economy
State Highway Department
Ress
Blue Star Ointment Promises Quick Itch Relief
A cooling ointment claims to soothe itchy skin by delivering medicines into pores to tackle itch, tetter, rash, ringworm and foot itch. The ad promises money back if relief fails and notes tested ingredients for rapid action.
Pope Confident Holy Year Will Create Optimism
Pope Pius told Lent preachers that contemplation of divine works would renew confidence to pull the world from crisis before Holy Year ends. He urged focus on the sum total of divine works to combat pessimism and stated humanity will be better off by year’s end.
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Vatican City
Pius
Rome
Road Department Earns Praise for Competence and Loyalty
A committee praised the highway department employer for possessing an organized force that conveys competence alertness and loyalty under present conditions. Emphasizing the lack of large cash reserves, the remarks suggested potential for a more progressive policy based on the department's current strengths.
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Highway Department
Highway rights of way should be acquired rather than donated
The report states maintenance was weak due to inherited poorly designed and kept highways. It recommends the department acquire highway rights of way by purchase or condemnation rather than county donations so expressways can be planned on sound economic principles without local influence.
Changes Proposed for Highway Department Reorganization
A committee recommends moving the autmobile license division into a proposed state department of taxation and revenue and the motor patrol into a proposed department of public safety. It favors a uniform employee classification, independent purchasing, tighter budgeting due to a new bond law, and reorganizing the highway department into three divisions with a clear policy for future highway development.
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Department of Public Safety
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Bureau of Business Administration
Solons Urge Hoover Support for Cotton Bill
Three Republican senators from cotton centers urged President Hoover to back the Smith bill reducing cotton acreage by 30 percent and offering farmers options equal to what they would have grown, to ease the industry’s woes. The petition came from Hebert and Metcalf of Rhode Island and Walcott of Connecticut.
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Hoover
Smith
South Carolina
Hebert
Meterlf
Rhode Island
Walcott
Connecticut
Wnd
Wounded man found after Four Camera hold up near Conroy
A man was found wounded on the doorstep of a Conroy hospital after a night of armed robbery at Four Camerons five miles from Carrot. He refused to reveal his name or how he sustained a bullet wound. Police exchanged shots with the robbers but details remain unclear.
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Conroy
Carrot
Doctors in Gun Struck Over Woman in Hollywood Dinner
Two Hollywood physicians, Dr Clyde Wilson and Dr Anthony Zorb, argued violently after a dinner party at Wilsons home on Hollywood Boulevard. Zorb, drinking, drew a frontier pistol and discharged it during the struggle over Wilson. Wilson was wounded in the abdomen and hospitalized.
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Clyde Wilson
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Heath
Anthony Zorb
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Hollywood Boulevard
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Vera Price
Horace Morgan
Dr. Zorb
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Argentine Prelate Receives Papal Audience in Vatican
Vatican City February 27 Pope Pius today welcomed Archbishop Giacomo Lig Capello of Buenos Aires in private audience on his first visit since appointment. The archbishop knelt to kiss the Pope s ring but was gently raised by the Pontiff in a friendly gesture.
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Vatican City
Pius
Giacomo Lig Capello
Buenos Aires
Pope Pius
Soldier dies in plane jump at March Field in Riverside
Riverside Calif Feb 2 a sergeant was killed and an enlisted man slightly injured when three men jumped from a bombing plane at an altitude of 2000 feet as it descended after running out of gas over Merch Field The dead sergeant was identified by army officers as Milo with little detail provided The crew believed the aircraft was breaking up and jumped one sergeant failed to open his parachute another enlisted man suffered a minor head cut the pilot landed the bomber without damage The plane carried five men including two pilots
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Milo
Paraguay Reports Bolivian Offense Rebuffed
ABUNOLON Paraguay Feb 27 Bolivian forces in the Gran Chaco pressed a central Paraguayan front but the Paraguayan general staff said two attacks yesterday were repelled with heavy Bolivian losses, signaling a defensive success amid ongoing fighting.
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Paraguay
Bolivie
Gran Chaco
End Serious Coughs With Creomulsion
Ad claims Creomulsion ends serious coughs by combining seven ingredients. It promises fast relief without narcotics and offers a money back guarantee if symptoms persist, noting it is effective for long standing coughs.
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Creomulsion
Woman Receives Five Year Suspended Term In Murder Case
TARUSA, 98 percent. Mrs. Ola May Redman was sentenced to five years suspended after a jury convicted her of murder for the shooting of Howard Chase. On cross examination she admitted writing a letter to Chase saying that if she could not have him, no other woman could.
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Tarusa
Mra. Ola May Redman
Howard Chase
Mra. Reiman
Chase
Mining Cage Crash At Crown Mine Fatalities Reported
In Johannesburg on Feb 24 a Crown mine elevator cage collapsed 7000 feet underground. Two Hurape and twelve native miners were injured or killed in the incident. Officials investigated the crash and the shaft safety procedures.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Crown Minea
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