Texas Colleges Push Higher Standards and Funding Reform
The Texas Colleges Association endorsed higher education funding changes and longer terms for regents. It backed shifting state aid to teacher student bases, raising compulsory attendance to 16, and extending school terms. Vocational education funding and junior college caution were debated amid calls to study prison findings.
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Association
United States
Board of Regents
Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
Frances FB. Sabin
New York
Assembly
Texas
Ethel Perrin
Rural School Improvements Urged by Texas Teachers
T N v onex of Tyler urged three essential elements for rebuilding and preservation of the southern states before the Texas State Teachers Association convention. He argued school improvements are crucial, noting limited progress under current conditions.
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S. M. N. Marrs
Texas
Hie
Marrs
T. X. Jones
Tyler
P. W. Horn
Lubbock
Onex
Texas State Teachers’ Association
Woman Ends Life Holding Babe Amid Rails
Mrs. Harry Pearson, 23, left a Plano home with her three year old in her arms and walked three miles to the railroad. She drank three ounces of poison. A freight train conductor found her body. the baby was unharmed. She died in Plano about thirty minutes later. Her home is in Farmersville, Texas.
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Associated Press
Fort Worth
Harry Pearson
Plano
Texas
Farmersville
Statewide school reform urged over local control
A speaker argues that local sentiment and lack of patron information hinder rural school improvements and that the state must assume full responsibility. He urges eradicating the belief that education is only a local matter and calls for plenary state power and unconditional funding to educate children nationwide.
Opposition Looms Over Gigantic TIGRET Affair Names Listed
A long OCR fragment lists numerous business names and individuals connected to the TIGRET opposition, including Cola Storage, Hoffman-Hayman Coffee, San Antonio Union Stockyards, Alamo Foods, San Antonio Drug, Alamo Iron Works, and Alamo National Bank among others, indicating a broad coalition or conflict. The passage appears to be a continuation from page one with scattered proper nouns and company names.
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Cola Storage Company
C. W. Fichtner
Hoffman-Hayman Coffee Company
San Antonio Union Stockyards
D. J Quill
Southern Equipment
J. B. Gilmer
Fred Hoummert
D. and
O. Oppenheimer
American Shoe and Hat Company
J. D. Oppenheimer
Alamo Foods Company
B. G. McGimsey
Newton and Weller Company
O. O. Hudson
Illness of Juror Falts O Brien Trial Delay
The trial resumes in February with district attorney changes and potential reforms. McAskill may act as special prosecutor while Chambers exits the defense team. The state accuses the O Brien twins of a 196000 theft from their longtime bank. Sullivan testifies about accounts and a letter alleging fictitious holdings.
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Falts O'Brien
M'Askill
McAskill
Tral
O'Brien
Sullivan
Peter O’brien
Hedwig bandit eludes capture after staged hold up
Police search for a masked lone bandit who felled a St Hedwig district road as J M Vargas 2098 South Presa street was robbed of coat hat $6 Shrine tickets a lady bag and watch valued at 85. He was warned of possible violence and fled into bushes after ordering Vargas to drive on. Ten similar holdups have occurred in four months in the area.
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J. M. Vargas
South Presa Street
St. Hedwig Road
Vargas
Eastland Heights
Robert Asty
High Warmen
Captain Street
City Declares War on Speed Demons
City warns motorists to slow at intersections for public safety and instructs police to enforce the slow down orders with heavy fines for violators.
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SPEED
New Radio Store to Open Monday in City
Alamo Radio and Electrical stores announce opening Monday at 109 East Houston Street with T. A. Ryan as manager and C. Stuve C. M. Tatum as shareholders. J. J. Shannon of New York will head the dia department. sales and repair services and installment sales on radio sets and accessories will be offered.
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Alamo Radio and Electrical
East Houston Street
T. A. Ryan
C. Stuve
C. M. Tatum
Man Fined $200 On Prohibition Charge
George W. Smith of Cassin Heights was acquitted of one liquor charge by a jury. State rangers had seized four and a half gallons of liquor hidden in a feed box in his garage. He pleaded guilty to a new possession charge before Judge Du Val, West and was fined $200, with another violation possible within a week.
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United States District Court
George W. Smith
Smith
Cassin Heights
United States
Edwards
Edwards Charging Possession of Liquor. Friday Smith
Ambulance Driver Injured In Collision At Filling Station
Jesse Stevens of Ludwig Undertaking Company suffered a cut in his left shoulder when the ambulance he was driving had its door struck by another car near a filling station in the 1400 block of North Flores Street. Two stitches were required. the incident happened around noon Saturday as Stevens opened the door to exit. The notice also promotes a prize mask ball at Tabor Temple featuring Jolly Rose Colonial Manhattan Revelers.
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Jesse Stevens
Ludwig Undertaking Company
Stevens
North Plores Etrect
Gettig
Tabor Temple
Jolly Rose
Manhattan
Uvalde Fair Opens Day Two With Rodeo And Local Talents
Uvalde and neighboring towns pour into the third annual fair as livestock judging wraps up and a bustling program unfolds. Highlights include a rodeo led by J H Mundine with riders from Del Rio and Bandera, Jackie Sellers’s two steer ride, calf roping by Newman Patterson who wins with 6 0 seconds, and a concert by Evans High School orchestra. A basketball game between Montell and Kurpa boys is slated, while goats and sheep judging and poultry exhibitions draw crowds from Sabinas and beyond.
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Uvalde
Tex
Peichy
Montell and Kurppa
Evans High School
Novety
Uvalde High School
Poultry Department
Rock Springs
Barksdale
Nueces Canyon
J. H. Mundine
South
Texas
Jackie Sellers
Pete Davenport
A Baderh
Buster Edwards
del Rio
Fred “Re ‘Bandera
Sam Roberts
A. F E. Mason
J. Hi Mundine
Sabinas
Aged Woman's Bones Found In Connecticut Woods
Stamford police reported the discovery of 80 year old Mrs Margaret Bouton missing since August 25 1928. A cane beside the skeleton led to identification. One leg bone was broken and investigators believe an automobile killed her before her body was hidden in the East Hunting Ridge woods about a mile from her home.
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Stamford
Conn
Margaret Bouton
East Hunting Ridge
Undertaker Ad Man Dies in New York
Dr Arnold Baer, former Philadelphia advertising executive and head of Baer Advertising Agency, famed for unconventional undertaker copy, dies at 57 in New York. Born in Bruchsal Germany he studied in local schools and universities before rising to national prominence.
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Undertaker
Ad’ Man
New York
Babe Indirectly Causes Death of Father
Chicago dispatch reports 17 month old Doro thy daughter of Richard Allen indirectly caused her father’s death. After locking the front door the mother left for groceries, the father fell while climbing to enter a second floor window when a porch support gave way and he broke his neck.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Dorothy
Richard Allen
Autopsy Finds With Heloin Feene Autopsy Findings
Sheriff W A Shay and the deputy district attorney depart San Gabriel after a second autopsy on William R Wee and the opening of a jointly held safe deposit box near the San Bernardino mountain cabin. A witness will be examined in San Bernardino as an attorney for MissMary Watkins says she will remain in seclusion. Fee's will in Wee's personal box left estates to widow and daughter.
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Associated Press
San Gabriel
Cal
W. A. Shay
William R. Wee
Mary Watkins
San Bernardino Mountain
Historney
San Bernardino
Fee
Shay
Miss Watkins
Steamer in Distress Radioed Help Call Signals
The Associated Press reports eight 0.5 signals from a ship in distress were picked up by WCAP in Washington. The vessel had broken steering gear. The ship’s name and position could not be deciphered.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
WCAP
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Formula liquor expert murdered in Los Angeles suburb
Fred W. Ferrer a 40 year old French chemist was found stabbed to death in a Los Angeles area cottage with an undischarged revolver nearby and a rabbit’s foot. Police say killers sought a secret illicit liquor formula and suspect Edward Eldridge who linked to a prior bootleg case. Ferrer came to the United States five years ago and married two years ago.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
Fred W. Ferrer
Edward Eldridge
Ferrer
George Hunter
Elsie Blackstock
Eldridge
France
Thief Grabs Purses After Church Chase in New York
Robert Dale, 34, a waiter of 813 West Thirtieth Street, was captured after a chase from St Agnes Church on Ninety second Street near Columbus Avenue. He pleaded not guilty in West Side court and was held on $1900 bail on charges of frequenting churches to steal women's purses.
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New York
Robert Dale
West Thirtieth Street
St. Agnes
Aged Driver Killed By Train Near Camp Silver
Winfield A. Stryker 64 of Marlboro New Jersey died when his car was struck at a crossing near Manasquam 600 yards from Camp Silver. His vehicle was hurled 30 feet and he died of a fractured skull en route to Spring Lake hospital. He supervised Camp Silver construction for a Red Bank contracting firm and failed to observe a northbound train after waiting for a southbound one.
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Manasquam
Winfield A. Stryker
Marlboro
N. J
Prade
Camp Silver
Stryker
Spring Lake
Red Bank Contracting
Police Move To Halt Tong War Bloodshed In New York
New York police prepared drastic steps to curb hostilities between Chinese Tongs following an armistice. Chong Food an On Leong member was killed in a Bronx laundry. Two other men Gong Sing and Tom Hong were wounded and another victim stabbed in a Brooklyn tenement. Hong and Sing were shot after a meeting between the Chinese consul general and Acting Police Commissioner John A. Leach.
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Associated Press
New York
Tongs
Hip
Chong Food
Bronx
Brooklyn
Gong Sing
Tom Hong
Hong
Sing
John A. Leach
Clerk 15 Arrested in Robinson Case Serial
After a preliminary hearing William Cooper Hobbs solicitor's clerk was arrested in Gravesend after being sought in connection with the Robinson case. The probe uncovered a blackmail plot involving a supposed Indian potentate who allegedly extorted 150 000 pounds from the Paris residence of Robinson's wife. Hobbs denied the warrant as absurd while awaiting further legal action.
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Associated
London
William Cooper Hobbs
O. B. Robinson
Midland Bank
Paris
Robinson
Hobbs
Gravesend
Alrosa
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Association of Texas Colleges
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George A. Works
Carnnell University
Babe
G. OF
Tigret
McCrory
C. M. Chambers
Dave Watson
O’briens
Hedwig Bandit
Tone Wolf
Woodchucks
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Heloin Feene
N. Alamo
4Th Street
Antonio
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San Antonio Water Supply Co
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