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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1935
Page
4
In Nishongnovi Arizona on August 23 Hopi Indians concluded a nine day rain prayer. Rain fell soon after the antelope dance began ending with the shake dance. Snake priests circled the village Plaza and released a snake to carry prayers underground to the spirits.
In New York on August 23, two Swift and Company meat packers were robbed of a $7000 payroll shortly after leaving the Manufacturers Trust Company at Fourteenth Street and Eighth Avenue.
Washington August 24 The FWA offers 14700 to the Bureau of Commerce Department of Commerce for an airways radio station at Houston.
More than 10,000 people were made homeless today by extensive floods covering about 200 square miles in Burdwan district Bengal. There was small loss of life. The government is taking elaborate precautions to prevent an outbreak of epidemics.
Postmaster General James Farley, back from Hawaii, urged the Roosevelt recovery program before the California Federation of Women’s Democratic Study Clubs. He called opposition to New Deal measures political maneuvering, dismissed it as rubbish, and predicted Roosevelt’s 1936 reelection while warning of a looming backlash against the administration.
Berlin dispatch reports Paul Joseph Goebbels told an international penal congress that the Nazi concept saved Europe from communism. The item mentions Boston terrier pups for sale in a light classifieds section.
Excerpted memoir details a 1933 anti kulak punitive expedition in Ufa and Bashkir regions. A 15 man detachment raided Russian and Bashkir villages, seizing families, exiling heads of households, and compelling mass dispossession in support of a class struggle narrative. The account notes secrecy, fear, and the claimed aims of destroying kulaks as a class under Stalin.
President Roosevelt plans a western trip after adjournment of Congress and may return via the Panama Canal. The return itinerary could include Texas and Arkansas to meet Senate leaders Vice President Garner and Senator Robinson. reports say disembarkation at Galveston is possible.
Police chased eight prowlers near Ward's control on South Street Marys, arresting one man with a large bag after tampering with a back store door. Officers also questioned two men linked to Mrs Evins. A murder charge was filed in Genevieve for a 34 year old tender in the death of 17 year old Valda Webore found injured near Gorman a week earlier.
Long Beach Calif Aug 23 An inquest was called today into the death of Mrs Gladys Glenn Farr a naval board stenographer found shot to death in her apartment four days ago Also questioned was her sister Mrs Florence Dowling 52 who owned a 32 caliber pistol of the type used in the killing She said she lost it in Los Angeles last week and visited her sister Monday night before traveling to Los Angeles the next day
Mrs Isahed Stillman Rockefeller, 59, widow of Percy, dies at home in Greenwich Connecticut on August 23. The report notes her passing amid a collection of Treasury data showing August receipts and expenditures, fiscal year totals, and overall federal gold assets.
Signed letters to The Light editor discuss the second amendment vote and Texas dry law. Writers warn against an amendment they say could empower lawyers and doctors while urging a wet vote to allow legal beer and whisky. A VOTER urges cooperation with police to close illegal venues.
Miss Gladys Rodden, 24, died from a gunshot wound received early yesterday. Police held the admitted slayer, B R Harrell, 35, at his farm home seven miles east of Grapevine, seven miles south of Grapevine.
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