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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1932
Page
8
The Federal Reserve Bank resources, including the San Antonio branch, fell by $1,062,000 week over week to $107,605,000. Bills and securities dropped $1,519,000 from last week while rising $2,562,000 from last year, totaling $41,988,000. Reserves declined $358,000 versus the preceding week and $5,323,000 from the prior year.
Night raids by the police yire squad resulted in 25 men and women booked for vagrancy Friday morning.
Tears flowed at Mascot studios as Rin Tin Tin died in harness at 14. The German police dog rose to fame in Warner Brothers thrillers and co starred with many stars. Reports note his popularity, his later signing with Nat Levine, and that fashion and cinema chatter center on Hollywood figures and premieres.
Webster hosts a Friday night dancing contest at the Plaza hotel with the Plaza hotel orchestra. Judges include L B Pierce, Lloyd Caldwell and Jeff Davis. Prizes will be awarded to winners.
Zachary Smith Reynolds heir to part of the RJ Reynolds tobacco fortune plans to probate a will executed in August 1931. The document leaves a $15,000,000 estate portion to his siblings and does not mention his widow Libby Holman Reynolds or the divorced wife Aene Cannon. Public reports say he may marry and a child is expected.
Executives from Eastern, Southeastern and Western railroads will meet in Chicago next week to discuss further wage reductions for organized employees. They plan to review data on living costs to be used under the Railway Labor Act to justify an additional 5 percent cut, atop the 10 percent cut already enacted on February 1.
The graduation exercises for the summer term of 1932 at San Marcos Baptist Academy will be held on the lawn of Carroll hall at 8 o'clock Tuesday evening. The commencement sermon is to be delivered by Rev. W. A. Bowen at First Baptist Church on Sunday morning, with Dr. W. C. Raines of Austin delivering the address.
Governor R B Sterling departed late last night for West Texas to fulfill a slate of campaign engagements. He said he was much improved after an illness of food poisoning that curtailed his schedule Tuesday night at Gonzales. A light classified ad will get results, call Cr 2400.
In Berlin the Hindenburg Hitler meeting is postponed to tomorrow as Hitler's bid for the chancellor’s post faces the president. Reports from Munich indicate Hitler may not reach Berlin until Saturday while Von Papen Schleicher arrange preliminaries. Treasury receipts show August 10 totals and customs duties for ten days of August.
Georgetown university seismograph recorded a strong earthquake last night with a maximum intensity at 11 10 PM Eastern Standard Time. Tremors lasted from 10 34 to about 12 34 PM. Estimate places the epicenter about 4000 miles distant with uncertain direction.
Reverend Edward Day has returned to open the Unitarian church on October 3 after a two month trip to Canada and England. He is pastor and librarian at Duncan Field, and studied social and economic issues in both countries during the journey.
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