Five Personal Injury Suits Filed in Sherman Court
Five personal injury damage suits totaling 66 400 were filed in Fifteenth District Court on Monday. Plaintiffs include L H Kirk of Sherman seeking 35 000 from Texas and Pacific Railroad due to a January 21 collision at Elm street crossing. R L Harrison of Denison seeking 2 000 for himself and 10 000 for his son Vernon from Texas Electric Railway Company over an October 19 1938 incident. Dee Smith suing Dixie Motor Coach Corporation for 2 900 over his wife Nona injured February 1 in Bells. T F Staggerse seeking 1 000 for injuries and 500 for his wrecked car after a February 3 crossing collision. and R L Hamilton suing Superior Foods Inc for 15 000 over Mary Hamilton's November 25 1938 injury at the Sherman store.
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Sherman
Fifteenth District Court
L. H. Kirk
Elm Street
Texas and Pacific Railroad Company
R. L. Harrison
Denison
Texas Electric Railway Company
Vernon
Shannon
Dee Smith
Dixie Motor Coach Corporation
Nona
Bells
Mary
Radio and Press Are Indispensable Declares O Daniel
Governor O Daniel says both radio and press are indispensable to the public stating the broadcast and the newspaper serve distinct roles. He abandons weekly Tuesday press conferences citing lack of time as lawmakers seek him constantly. He notes rising at 5 45 a m and working until midnight and that he remains physically fit for the job.
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Austin
O’daniel
Treasury warns: nickel worth only five cents
Washington officials urge the public to pay no more than five cents for a nickel after rumors that nickels are faulty and recalled. The Treasury notes 40 million Jefferson nickels minted while 90 million buffalo nickels remain in circulation.
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Washington
United States Treasury
Court Upholds Negroes Right to Mixed Jury
The Supreme Court voided High Pierre of Louisiana’s death sentence, ruling his murder conviction unconstitutional because blacks were barred from the grand jury that indicted him. Justice Black wrote that excluding African Americans from grand juries is as illegal as excluding them from trial juries. Pierre remains in parish prison in New Orleans.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Pierre
Lucy
High Tribunal
Hugo L. Black
Louisiana Supreme Court
New Orleans
St. John the Bapist
Weather brings delays as Portern news reports
Porters News notes bad weather and hopes for a sunny spell. Farmers sow oats while residents share family updates. Jessie Bess Rich born to Mr and Mrs Joe Rich. Several visits and illnesses mentioned. Social news includes visits among McCord Bennett Hicks Gunter Williams and Wilkinson families across nearby towns.
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Joe Rich
Jessie Bess
C. E. McCord
Dorotha Jean
Betty Jo
Elbert Bennett
Whitewright
Earl Rowden
Charlie Rogers
Margaret McCord
Orvil Jones
Elmer Anderson
J. T. Robinson
Hugh Hunter
Bonham
Etta Bell Hicks
Jim Hicks
Jewel Gunter
Claude McCord
Gennie Irl Hicks
Near Bethel
Sarah
Ina Lee Hicks
Dick Fincher
Denison
Murry Lee Williams
Clarksville
J. W. Gunter
Dock Williams
Barnett Williams
G. D. Bennett
Murl Wilkinson
Edd Wilkinson
Drivers' Licenses Suspended in Two Weeks in Austin
The public safety department's drivers' license bureau reports 78 suspensions in the past two weeks. Bureau Chief Ralph L Buell notes 62 tied to drunk driving convictions. nine lifted for reckless driving. four for physical unfitness. two for fraudulent use. one for negligent homicide. Advertisements.
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Austin
Prison rolls up in Texas conceal motives in parole delays
Texas prison population widens despite more paroles. Ellingson cites a 12 year gain of 3,438 but argues many eligible first offenders could be paroled to drop population below 1928 levels. Senator Burns and the parole board discuss funding, location, overtime rulings, and a pending bill to revert overtime credit.
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Texas
Ellingson
E. A. Seale
Bureau of Records and Identification
Pardon and Parole Board
Gordon Burns
Huntsville
House Penitentiaries Committee
Austin
T. C. Andrews
Attorney General's Department
O’daniel
Convicts Refuse to Fight Fire at Eastham Camp No 2
In Huntsville Texas General Manager O J S Ellingson said a main building at Eastham prison farm Camp No 2 burned Monday night with 250 inmates under 25 refusing to help extinguish the blaze. Guards evacuated prisoners and prevented escapes while other buildings were saved. Convict labor will replace the frame structure.
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Huntsville
O. J. S. Ellingson
Texas Prison System
Camp No. 2
Eastham Prison Farm
Ellingson
Millionaire Inheritance Sparks Witty Exchange
A household conversation reveals a surprise fortune. One spouse remarks on a one million dollar bequest from a deceased partner, while the other recalls having five million at the time of marriage, highlighting a mix of luck and wealth.
False Old Age Said Result of Economic System
New York report on aging cites a doctor stating many Americans suffer a false age mindset due to social and economic conditions. He urges flexible retirement, notes aging shares by region, and cites declining gainful employment from 1890 to 1930 while calling for more study and psychoanalytic insight into aging.
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New York
George Lawton
American Orthopsychiatric Association
J. K. Folsom
New England
New Hampshire
California
Folsom
Ralph Kaufman
M. D
Boston
Texas women drivers faster than men in state surveys
Austin reports that a Texas Highway Department study finds about 70 percent of women exceed the 45 mph limit on major highways, while 54 percent of men violate it. The engineer notes far more men than women drive overall. Philadelphia employs more than 100,000 clerical workers.
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Austin
Texas
Harry S. Phillips
State Highway Department
Phillips
Philadelphia
Rent a Cow System Works Successfully in Shelby
A Shelby livestock dealer reports a rent a cow program with about 75 cows placed with renters. Renters pay 75 cents to $1.50 per week, providing feed and shelter, while the dealer replaces cows when a milker goes dry.
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Shelby
N. C
Bossy
CIO AFL Broadcast Attacks Texas Transactions Tax
A Houston radio broadcast hosted by state CIO and AFL bodies criticized Governor O Daniel s transactions tax and proposed a substitute taxing natural resources public utilities incomes and amusements Roy E Sessions vice president of the Texas State Industrial Union Council called the tax a pyramided sales tax and urged equalizing the ad valorem tax instead of abolition as proposed by O Daniel
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Houston
Congress of Industrial Organizations
American Federation of Labor
O'Daniel
Roy E. Sessions
Texas State Industrial Union Council
O’daniel
College Station Functions as City After Ruling
Texas A and M College town of College Station was functioning as a municipality after Attorney General Mann ruled that college faculty members may serve as town officers since they are not state officers. City officials, all faculty, were sworn in Friday with Dr. J. H. Hinney named mayor.
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College Station
Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College
Mann
J. H. Hinney
Crazy Drivers in Detroit Clinic Examined 467 Defendants
The Detroit Records Court analyzed 467 drivers from the court system in 1938. Seven were deemed insane requiring institutional care, forty on the verge of insanity, forty-six feeble-minded, thirty-two with serious physical handicaps making them unsafe drivers, and ninety-seven labeled dangerous behind the wheel.
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Detroit
Psychopathic Clinic
Kills Husband in Fight Over Lee O Dan Suspended Term
Mozelle Lew convicted of murder for shooting Arthur L. Lewis during an argument over Governor Lee O Daniel's radio broadcasts. A Rusk County jury sentenced her to a two year suspended term. The killing occurred January 8 at Selman City in an oil field settlement following a dispute over a shotgun in the fight. Goldsmith quote appears at end.
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Henderson
Mozelle Lewis
W. Lee O’daniel
Rusk County
Arthur L. Lewis
Selman City
Lewis
Shortage of Labor in Some Occupations
Los Angeles reports unemployment remains grave but actual shortages exist in several skilled callings. The California Department of Employment notes unfilled requests for bookkeeping and billing machine operators and opportunities for chemical engineers, topographical draftsmen, male stenographers, aircraft workers and other trained personnel.
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Los Angeles
California Department of Employment
Texas Cotton Trade Falls at Galveston Port
Figures from Galveston port show the current season's cotton shipments totaling 687,294 bales, down from 1,051,449 bales the previous season. The top buyers are Japan-China with 210,693 bales, followed by Germany at 105,786 and France with 91,104.
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Galveston
Texas
Germany
France
Travel Talk on a Boston to Miami Train
A sailor and a commercial traveler share a conversation aboard a train from Boston to Miami. The sailor boasts of global travel while the traveler questions geography. The joke hinges on the sailor recalling an obscure coal port with vague fondness as the ship he served on briefly touched there.
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Boston
Miami
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Justine Sears
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