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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1936
Page
5
New Bedford Mass Aug 31 A legal fight over the 60 million Edward H R Green fortune has been launched by his widow Mabel H Green. She seeks a temporary administrator and to search safes for a later will while Mrs Sylvia Anne Wilks, sole beneficiary and executrix under the 1908 will, remains a key figure.
Four United States Marines were ordered court martial in Peiping on charges of striking a sentry. Pa J. Wilson of Baltimore Braphen Redden of Hidgeley Earnest Jameson of Lakeview Ore and Edward Kirby of Los Angeles face trial October 3 for the assault following a series of pranks. The men reportedly hoisted a flag on the U.S. embassy and slugged the sentry.
Luz Vasquez and Cesar, noted dancers from La Golondrina Olvera street and El Paseo Santa Barbara, perform in Hollywood Boulevard directed by Robert Florey. Governors Allred and Tingley cameo as Ranger roles in Paramount’s new King. Oland orders Oriental art from Far East collection and prep for Charlie Chaplin at Fox with Boris Karloff in cast.
A nationalist group in Mexico City unites 606 conservatives and industrial interests from Nuevo Leon Tamaulipas and Coahuila to oppose popular front policies and rally against somniunism while signaling potential ties to Cardenas era factions. Their stance may hinge on U S presidential outcomes with questions about Roosevelt and Daniels.
Snee zers and sniffers with hay fever held a day at Dallas exposition grounds to crown the champion sheezer of Texas and form a national organization. District Judge C A Pippen and numerous celebrities attended as nose tests continued. Sunday turnout reached 43,742, boosting the total to 3,415,492.
A jumble of notes from the Texas town scene mentions Rev P B Hill and Judge Charles J Matthews in film reels, Father Sidney Metzger's supernatural hobby, a Pearsall trader importing old San Antonio streetcars for a tourist camp, and various local figures, plus a Korea typhoon death list update with 1516 dead and 32,254 houses destroyed as communications were restored.
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