Texas special session looms as tax hike clash begins
Austin set for the three ring political and legislative circus as the 45th Legislature opens. The Governor seeks 15 million dollars extra revenue through taxes on oil gas sulphur pipelines and utilities with a luxury tax. Senate committee offers cuts and bureau abolitions including liquor control and social service agencies. A school fund revenue shift is debated and observers predict little new tax action or a session deadlock. Texas University reports record enrollment while lawmakers weigh New Deal policy shifts and looming congressional races.
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Angry farmers pull down power poles in Ohio
About 100 Seneca and Crawford County farmers uprooted and dragged more than twenty poles along a highway near Tiffin to oppose Lake Erie Power and Light Company expansion. Linemen clashed with farmers in a prior attempt, an unidentified woman barred workmen from climbing a pole, and an injunction hearing was set for tomorrow as portable generators were readied for temporary loads.
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Lake Erie Power & Light Company
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Crawford County
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Nobody Can List Powers of F. D. R. Attorney Claims
A Washington legal official said no one can name all presidential powers. Alexander Holtzoff, special assistant to the attorney general, joked a tidy list would be impractical and would be vast beyond measure. He noted laws and opinions on presidential rights are too numerous to master.
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Alexander Holtzoff
Cummings
Holtzoff
White House
Trade Died With Hauptmann as He Kills Himself
In the weeks before the Lindbergh baby case Hauptmann, a quiet beer garden patron in the Bronx, was arrested as the kidnapper. After Hauptmann died in the electric chair, patron Joseph Henzmann, 57, ended his own life on a beer garden table, the medical examiner citing suicide.
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Joseph Henzmann
Bronx
Henzmann
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Hauptmann
Demand of Union Forces For Sale Notice at Bakery
Watertown Massachusetts. Faced with union demands for a shop agreement and wage increases, cookie bakery owner Jess W. Greer of Cambridge closed the plant employing 215 people. A for sale sign was placed on the bakery, which had an annual payroll of 150 thousand dollars. Greer, an inventor and maker of candy machinery, started the project four years ago to avoid layoffs amid a low mood. The Confection Workers Union seeks a 33 percent wage increase. In closing the plant Greer criticized labor policies of the National Administration for causing unemployment.
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Watertown
Mass
Jess W. Greer
Cambridge
Greer
National
Nearly All Girls Yearn for Husband Says Counselor
Omaha report: Miss Goldier Carter of the YWCA interviewed 2500 young women in two years. She found marriage their chief ambition for most, with 90 percent worried about it. She urges viewing marriage as an incident not an end and advises not to fret.
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Neb
Goldier Carter
Miss Carter
Job Seeker Finds 1350 Dollars Then Still Jobless
Louis Correa and his wife and son in need of medical care found a bundle of 1350 dollars and turned it into a bank. The bank traced the money to a lost shipment by a money transportation firm. Correa resumes job hunting and a Want Ad is urged for results.
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Los Angeles
Louis Correa
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