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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1932
Page
3
A growing legal wrangle in Aquor dominates discussion as the president denounces disrespect for law and the Constitution. He rejects a return to saloon corruption or bootlegger abuses, pledging state and local control with constitutional guarantees to prevent interference by neighboring states.
In a late session before adjournment the Senate debated a restitution for a new constitutional amendment. Notables attended the event including Mrs Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs Hoover, Everett Sanders, and Representatives Shell and Moses as Hoover received the nomination with the president’s widow in attendance and other Republican leaders present.
A. Surgi was held up by three men near Brackenridge Park in San Antonio on Wednesday night. In a letter to Houston Chief of Detectives J. K. Irwin, Surgi said the robbers forced him to drive, robbed $12 and his car, then returned the vehicle. He initially avoided reporting to avoid retaliation.
Austin August 12 state moves to enforce the new Texas truck laws. Assistant Attorney General Elbert Hooper filed for penalties up to 10000 and 100 a day for violations against Anderson Clayton Company, cotton exporters, seeking dissolution of an injunction as the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the Texas truck law validity.
A second threatening call to Detective Perrow delaying the double slaying investigation of Mr. and Mrs. Markley on Grapeland Avenue. Police, including Sheriff’s deputies and DA investigators, pressed on amid scant new leads and a hinted motive linked to past actions.
Milwaukee August 12 court testimony reveals that the father and son of Gilda Gray who rose to fame with the shimmy have been receiving aid from the county outdoor relief department.
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