Hoover Requests Funds for Pension and Disabled Veterans
President Hoover asked supplemental appropriations totaling 27,206,740 to aid army and navy pensions and maintenance of homes for disabled service men. The request includes 12,750,000 for pensions and 4,233,000 for military and naval insurance, plus 24,460 for state homes and 98,260 for 1932. An additional estimate seeks 200,000 for deportation of destitute aliens.
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Washington, D.C
Hoover
House Appropriations Committee
Texas Grants 164 Charters In April For Oil and Manufacturing Firms
A secretary of state report shows 164 new corporations chartered in April in Texas with capital stock totaling 3 208 000. Capitalization is down one percent from March and the number of firms chartered fell 83 percent. About two thirds of the charters were oil, manufacturing and merchandising firms with increases in both the oil and manufacturing sectors. Thirty four out of state corporations were permitted to do business in Texas.
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Texas
Austin
Secretary of State
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Condon to Seek to Identify Suspect in Lindbergh Case
New York police announce a lineup at police headquarters with Dr John F Gundon Bronx mediator aiding the effort to identify the Lindbergh baby ransom suspect. The arrangement, urged by Col H Norman Schwarckopf head of New Jersey state police, will take effect tomorrow morning.
Amarillo High School Yearbook Notably Different in 1932
Amarillo May 16. The 1932 La Alross year book from Amarillo high school is described as different from the average school annual. It follows a group of students through eight years in high school with civic themes absent. The printing is modernistic with black red and green chapters.
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Amarillo
la Alross
Inlead
Cotton Planting at Quanah Is Late
In Hardeman county Quanah area only about ten percent of anticipated cotton has been sown this year. Planting on sandy soil has begun slowly with some acres planted, but cool nights and cold ground hinder progress. Most remaining acres are expected to be sown within the next two weeks.
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Quanah
Hardeman
Inventor Aids Pilots With Inclinometer Device
Relief Watte designs an instrument to help pilots in fog or poor conditions. Charles F. Sachtichen holds the device, tentatively named "inclinometer," tested in planes from Winburn field and Alamo airport. The dual-face instrument shows climb or descent and bank angles, uses radium pointers, springs, and jeweled bearings, and resists centrifugal force and vibration.
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Watte
Charles F. Sachtichen
West
Commerce Street
Winburn Field
Alamo Airport
Othey
Vera
Anahuac Company Reports Early Gulf Rice Crop
The Cone Star Canal company of Anahuac claims the Gulf coast’s earliest rice crop. It planted 2000 sorts early in February and the young plants are several inches high, with promise of a top yield in river farming history.
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Anahuac Company
Cone Star Canal Company
Anahuac
Gulf Coast Country
Postal Savings Reach New High in April Total
Postal savings on April 30 reached a new high, with the balance totaling 1 3M6552A. A previous figure shows $697,279,745 in postal savings as of March 31.
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Washington, D.C
Oil Rail Right of Way Ownership Case Wins Appeal
The Texas Supreme Court today affirmed a ruling in favor of Gulf Producing Co. over ownership of an oil claim worth about 6 million dollars. The dispute involved land near the Texas and New Orleans Railway right-of-way in Jefferson County and whether adjacent property owners relinquished rights to the railway corridor.
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Austin
Scpheme Court of Texas Today
Inmernesth
Texas and New Orleas Railona Company
Jefferson County
Douthitt
Interva
Gulf Producing Company
Peelsion
National Cotton Week Inaugurated
ATLANTA May 16 1 Dixie reporters describe National Cotton Week celebration with officials wearing cotton aided garments and displays in windows. Bank closes doors. Shares: Leominster National bank reports assets of 84 020 250.
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Atlanta
Dixie
Ats Bly
I Rominster
Mast
Taday
Weather Storm Impacts Texas Cities and Highways
A storm moving from the north swept across Texas causing wind damage in southern city areas and flooding on portions of Highway No. 9 near Balcones Creek between San Antonio and Bandera. Reports list Galveston 1.44 inches of rain and other sites from Corpus Christi to Dallas receiving rainfall, with no rain at Del Rio and Brownsville. Traffic largely normal aside from the Fredericksburg road tie-up and a derailed streetcar noted by public service officials.
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Bouwn Flores
Fredericksburg Road
Balcones Creek
San Anwonio
Baernt
Highway Department
San Antonio
Thay
Sen Amoniy Public Service Company
Weather Bureau
Texas
Galveston
Corpus Christ
Palestine
Austin
Dallas
Det Rid
Brownsville
Waco Floods and Yoakum Tornadoes Hit Texas
Heavy rains swamped Waco with up to 3.91 inches and four foot flood pockets while hail tore through nearby areas. In Yoakum and surrounding farm country tornadoes blasted Wied community injuring one man and damaging homes crops and a store. Frank Vick suffered a lightning strike injury.
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Yoakdm
Texas
Yoakum
Frank Vick
Youkum
Banks Asked to Watch for Notes
Treasury officials urged banks to seek vigilance in tracing ransom notes tied to the Lindbergh kidnapping. Since the public release of the currency list, only two bills reported in the New York area have been traced to no clear source, while the search for the others continues.
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Washington, D. C
Treasury
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
New York
Denial of Betty Gow death report from state police
In Trenton New Jersey on May 16 the state police rejected a report that Betty Gow Lindbergh nurse had died by her own hand. Colonel H Norman Schwarzkopf issued an official statement saying there is absolutely no truth in the report.
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Betty Gow
Trenton
N. J
INS
Lindbergh
Col
H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Craoe Schwarzkopf
State Building
New Cabinet To Rule Jas
Bolkan police office with hand grenades caused little damage. A policeman and a newspaperman were wounded as terrorists sped down the street. A group bombed the Seiyukai headquarters with slight damage. Banks and Count Makino home damaged modestly. Police reserves mobilized citywide. Hand bills denounce Japan’s economy and education. Tokyo stock exchanges suspended. silk markets closed. Premier Inukai to receive state funeral Wednesday. Acting Premier Takashi to head funeral committee. The country remained quiet with no anti foreign movement signs.
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Bolkan
Seiyukai Party
Bank of Japan
Mitsubish Bank
Count Makino
Emperor Hirohito
Japan
Tokio
Osaka
Kate
Nagoya
Yokohama
Kobe
Inukai
Seiyukai
Takahashi
Inukai Third Jap Premier to Be Slain
Inukai Sukazo named as third Japanese premier killed by an assassin in Tokyo. The deaths and numerous assassination attempts over the past year highlight rising political violence in Japan, with earlier victims including Premier Takashi Hara in 1921 and Baron Takuma Dan, a financier and industrialist, slain in his office.
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Inukai
Tokio
INS
Inusai
Sunnosuke Inouye
Takuma Dan
Japan
Cotton King and Queen Open Memphis Cotton Carnival
The King and Queen, royal figures of the Memphis Cotton Carnival, arrive by royal barge to inaugurate the festival. In private life the couple are J. P. Novilect and his widow Katharine Buller. The couple’s interest in cotton and related industrial motives adds a colonial tone to the celebration.
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Memphis
J.P. Novilect
Katharine Buller
Lindbergh Broke After Ransom Advances, Says Eagle
The Brooklyn Eagle reports a source close to the Lindbergh kidnapping inquiry said Colonel Lindbergh felt broke a week before the baby's body was found. It adds that he spent about $200,000 on the search and borrowed $25,000 of the ransom from a bank, paid by Dr. John F. Condon, the Bronx mediator.
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Lindbergh
New York
The
Brooklyn Eagle Today
Charles A. Langbergh
Eagle
John F. Condon
Bronx
Negroes One Prize Pla Play at City Theater Tonight
The Pulitzer prize play Abra- Nain's Bosom is staged with music by a negro city chorus and special numbers. White roles are played by Harry A Porter Jr and again by Harry A Porter Jr. The drama, a Negro Lille theater production, is directed by W Heniumings and listed for 021 Hitarimony at 15:00 Monday night.
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Pultzer Prize
Abra- Nain
Paul Grace
Ford Re employs 800 at Houston
Ford Motor assembling plant re cataloged about 60 workers at the Harrisburg boulevard site today as full time operations face restriction. Manager F. Reinhardt told the men he was happier they could return to work. The workers cheered.
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Houston
Ford Motor
Danton
Harrisburg Boulevard
Astro Worker
Ats
F. 5
Reinhardt
Bailey Post Trial Delayed in Hasell Bank Case
Bailey Post former cashier of Wie Feamers State Bank in Haskell faces trial on a £3100 embezzlement charge from a sinking fund of the city, with delays granted by both sides until the September district court term as Post is unable to stand trial.
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Haskell
Bailey Post
Wie Feamers’ State Bank
Post
14 Year Old Boy Tield for Extortion Attempt
A 14 year old boy was lured into an extortion plot by a man posing as a victim and arranged to meet for payment. Police detained the youth after the suspect planned to rendezvous and collect money, with the case connected to a broader inquiry led by the state's attorney's office.
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Tield
V. Blaul
Harry Brownstein
Wischildren Unters
Bisul
Sidney Earp
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