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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1935
Page
2
A vast range of mountains submerged under the Bering Sea was reported to the coast guard by Commander L. V. Kee Thorn of the Bering Sea Patrol. Some peaks rise almost perpendicularly about 1,000 feet from the ocean floor.
Oklahoma City invites were prepared for the first meeting of all states under the Interstate Compact. Governors Allred of Texas and Landon of Kansas advised the date September 12, with agreement ratified by Congress. Marl and others were agreeable to that date.
County Judge Frost Woodhull and commissioners seek public approval on issuing warrants for 100000 in road and bridge funds to obtain a 750000 federal WPA grant for work on 2000 miles of lateral roads. WPA official notes county match required. public sentiment due by September 12 before funds application.
BERLIN August 30 The Protestant Confessional Lutheran Synod must answer a state order that could dissolve it. It faces a choice between accepting state management of church affairs as a passing measure or risking dissolution, loss of subsidies, and possible arrest of pastors.
LONDON Aug 30 Reuters says Henri Barbusse, famed French writer and valued Communist advocate, died in Moscow. Paris reports he died today in Moscow after war service that boosted his literary fame and led his associates to praise his pacifist and humanitarian leadership. His war health was wrecked.
Yugoslavia Romania and Czechoslovakia signed the Franco Italian draft of a proposed Danubian pact. Details were not officially released but described unofficially as a simple aggression treaty with clause for consultation among the signatories in Danubian states including Czechoslovakia Austria Bulgaria and Hungary amid debate on emergencies.
Shanghai rose to the fourth largest port in the world according to the just released trade revelations. The surge is attributed to increased total trade and foreign forces, with the report noting significant momentum in maritime activity around Shanghai.
In Worcester Massachusetts a five year old girl named Marilynn Drown from Washington DC was playing near relatives when a large rock toppled. The soft earth cushion saved her from serious harm as the rock moved and she emerged with only minor injuries. The event occurred August 31.
Southeast Missouri’s first double hanging in six years ends as Rute Gasman and Roy Hamilton, alleged county holdup gunmen, die on the gallows in New Madrid. The August 30 execution marks a stark end to a high profile crime spree in the region.
Thousands of printed blue eagle labels symbolizing the late NRA were burned by federal workers in a Denver potters fire building as they attempted to cremate the symbol. Officials chose tearing up the paper and disposing of it as waste.
A Bendix airman, Allen, died after his plane The Spirit of Alene crashed near power lines as he attempted a low pass over a crowd of about 10 000 at Tacoma Washington witnesses Fred and Glenn Van Winkle described the wing dipping and the pilot shutting off the motor. Allen, born in Clearwater Ohio, had recently flown from Japan via Abu Han island and the Siberian coast for fuel.
Fred Allsup an ex convict wounded in the leg while fleeing a sheriff's posse 15 miles north of Sapulpa Oklahoma earlier this week died early today in Sapulpa hospital after an operation to amputate the leg.
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