Court reviews Dallas County GOP chairmanship dispute
The Supreme Court agreed to review a dispute over Dallas County Republican chairman authority. The case involves Ralph W. Currie and R. P. Dick Wall, with Wall backed by party chair George C. Hopkins Jr. and Currie seeking to prevent interference with his chair duties. The District court found no jurisdiction, a Civil Appeals panel reversed, and further appeals followed.
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Austin
Supreme Court Today
Dallas
Schweers Rites Set for William H Schweers
Puneral services for William Henry Schweers age 69 of 614 Montana st will be held at 4 pm Thursday at the Akers Funeral home with interment in Mission Burial park. He died suddenly Tuesday at a friend’s home while he and his wife observed their forty fifth wedding anniversary. He was a stock man at the Union stockyards and a member of the Texas Cattle Raisers' association. He broke horses for the Rough Riders while stationed there. Survived by widow Mrs Grolch on Schneers, three sons Clarence H Chester W and Carl A Schneers, sisters Mrs John Rothmann Emil Lehmberg and Mrs fix Steiger all of San Antonio, and Mrs Ben Gerdes Bandera, and four grandchildren.
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William Henry Schweers
Grolchon Schneers
Clarence H. Chester W
Carl A. Schneers
John Rothmann
Emil Lehmberg
Fix Steiger
San Antonio
Ben Gerdes
Bandora
One Tax Shared, 3 More Studied
Baton Rouge June 2 01 The senate finance committee which already has shaved the hickel beer tax today takes up Gov Earl Longs sales and severance taxes Yesterday the committee trimmed the proposed nickel a bottle beer levy to 212 cents before voting approval The adwriter line is part of the readable fragment
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Baton Rouge
Senate
Earl Long
Senate Finance Committee
Three City Dads Favor Bus Plea
Three of four city commissioners signaled support for abolishing the nickel transit pass with a Thursday hearing set to hear Raymond Gerhardt and pass proponents. Officials debated increased service and a shoppers bus as commuters questioned rider numbers, while a city auditor questioned the 31 percent profit claim.
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San Antonio ‘Transit Co
C. Ray Davis
Raymond Gerhardt
Davis
San Antonio
Jimmy Knight
Pass Abolilion
Knight
Houston
Raymond South
South
Henry Hein
Transit 20
Hein
Ely
W. M. Aikman
Gerharat
Comic Book Tale Costs Boy's Life
JO MANSTOWN Pa June 2 UP A 11 year old Richard Watkins died last night at home while his parents attended junior high exercises for his sister Betts 15 Coroner Joseph Goveckar said the boy appeared to imitate a hanging shown in a comic book He fell from his bed onto a clothes line over a hot water heating pipe near the ceiling and was found dead with the comic open to a page titled A Lesson in Murder The coroner said the boy may have been experimenting with the hanging depicted in the cartoon.
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JO Manstown
Richard Watkins
Cambria County
Joseph Goveckar
Goveckar
Betts
Elvis Watkins
Murder Count for Victorian Aveemt in The Light
Funeral services were held for Santos Flores 22 shot to death near the Guadalupe river bridge Sunday night Blas Garcia 22 truck driver is jailed on a murder charge Garcia admits shooting Flores in self defense seven shots from a .32 caliber pistol six hit Flores four in the head and two in the body He said Flores attacked then Garcia fired as Flores stepped from a cafe doorway over a knife slash Garcia says he fired while Flores ran away
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Victoria
Santos Flores
Guadalupe River
Blas Garcia
W. F. Crawford
J Garcia
Flores
Garcia
Lores
Filores
Business Failures Rise in Week Ended May 27
New York news reports a surge in commercial and industrial failures for the week ending May 27 reaching 112, up from 92 the prior week and 72 a year earlier. Dunn and Bradstreet notes this as the highest since March 4.
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New York
Dunn and
Bradstreet
Cuba Antified Leads Cuban Presidency Race in Havana
In Havana on June 2 Sen Camios Prio Sorarras 44 quickly led the Cuban presidential race while anti CommunistPain trailed with nearly 24 000 votes as 4442 of 7730 precincts reported Violence occurred but no deaths Reports listed Priv 524308 Nunez Portuonde 347206 Chibas 190702 Marinella 94071 with parties Democratic Liberal People's Communist gaining listed figures and ongoing returns for the ballots
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Havana
Camios Prio Sorarras
Pain
Revolutionary Party
Priv
Juvenile Law Upheld by Texas Judge
Burnet Texas June 2 UP Judge Roy C Archer acting Judge of Thirty third District court upheld the constitutionality of a law creating paid county juvenile boards The attorney general had ruled the measure unconstitutional as local and special The judge held the law general in nature because it affects more than half the counties in the state and applies to districts with four or more counties
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Burnet
Texas
Roy C. Archer
Thirty-third District Court
Attorney General's
Archer
Church urged radio committees by Southern Presbyterian
Atlanta June 2 formation of radio committees was urged by the general assembly of the Southern Presbyterian church in a report adopted last night which said broadcasting offered tremendous opportunities to the church. Approval was given to a report on Christian relations with Roman Catholicism and Protestantism noting encroachments on Protestant liberties.
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Atlanta
General Assembly of the
Southern Presbyterian Church
Committee On Christian Relations
Rescued by Inspector Breen From Building Ledge
In San Francisco on June 2 a hysterical Chinese woman, Wong Loy, denied entry to the United States, climbed four stories above a downtown ledge to end her life. Police Inspector John Breen and Inspector Van De Nike pulled her to safety after a four hour standoff as Immigration officials and lawyers failed to persuade her to descend. Breen later quipped that he wanted to keep his dinner date.
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United States
Wong Loy
Shanghai
Breen
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