Ferguson's Texas message calls for tax, prison, and reform plans
Austin reports Governor Miriam Ferguson outlines budget cuts to 25-30 million dollars and urges immediate processing of appropriation bills. She targets 60 banks for scrutiny, proposes abolishing the fire rating board, praises game and fish work, and supports ranger cooperation with sheriffs. She favors parole reforms, extensive penitentiary changes, and a sales tax on tobacco for education funding, plus new prison governance changes and a West Texas insane asylum proposal.
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Game, Fish and Oyster Department
Ferguson
San Antonio
Panama Legion Commander Boggs Leads Department ties
William Byrne Boggs, born 1892 in Frametown West Virginia, assumes command of the Panama department of the American Legion. A veteran of Coast Artillery and the Panama Canal service, he has long served in Legion posts and committees including Panama Canal Post No. 1 and the department executive groups. He is married to Esther Bye with two children Date and Carol.
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United States
Department of Panama
Legion Officers
William Byrne Boggs
Boggs
Frametown
West Virginia
Coast Artillery Corps
Germany
Adjutant General’s Department
Panama Canal Department
Esther Bye
Minneapolis
Illiteracy Problem Highlighted by Alaska Education Expert
H L Faulkner, noted education authority, spoke to educators under the American Legion Alaska division drive to curb illiteracy. He warned that 800 to 1,000 illiterates in the First division voted in elections and now serve on juries and city councils, shaping laws they cannot grasp.
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Alaska
H. L. Faulkner
United States
Faulkner
American Legion
Department of Alaska
Mr. Faulkner
Governor Richardson Praises Legion Pick for Welfare Post
California Governor Friend W Richardson says he gave the secretary job to a man he had never met but who was recommended by the Legion and who has delivered the goods 100 percent. He credits Legionnaires with running the Veterans Welfare commission impartially and well.
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Friend W. Richardson
California
Legion
Veterans’ Welfare Commission
Japan Uses More Wool as Imports Skyrocket
Japan, traditionally a silk country, reported a sharp rise in wool consumption. Imports surged from 6,655,000 pounds in 1923 to 46,985,000 pounds in 1928, with wool yarn imports up from 3,262,000 to 21,143,000 pounds and wool cotton mixture cloths rising from 8,836,000 to 21,060,000 yards.
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Japan
Impossible Doctor Delivers Snappy Show Revues
A tense exchange unfolds as a tired businessman, claiming to be an artificial leg maker, dismisses medical advice while urging the doctor to focus on entertaining reunions and revues.
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