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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1936
Page
2
Willam Crittenden reports four men held him up in a Ruiz Street bar on Tuesday, took $550, beat him, and forced him into a car. He was dumped on 8 Country Lane and walked back to the city after the assault.
Wardwhite Jr. aged 16 of 111 Meer scheldt street was treated at Robert B. Green hospital Tuesday after both legs were broken in a football game near his home on Monday. A. W. Adams aged 34 of 901 South Flores street was treated for an eye injury sustained while repairing an auto.
Buenos Aires reports twelve of eighty two delegations at the Inter American peace conference signed the realized United States neutrality plan. The plan seeks inter American consultation to act in war, non intervention, and ratification of treaties, with Roosevelt sending a hopeful message of continued good neighbor policy.
New York police seek relatives of a 67 year old recluse found dead in a Brooklyn rooming house. He left $300 cash and bankbooks showing deposits totaling about $28,000. The name given was Michael Murphy. he had said he ran a frit stand in New Jersey.
Washington February 15 Representatives of the textile industry appealed to the tariff commission for increased duties on cotton velveteens and corduroys. Rep Edits Nourse of Lowell Massachusetts Republican warned that rising imports of Japanese velveteens and corduroys threaten American industry and workers.
New York reports Carlisle Rountree and his brother Lantis Underwood Rountree were convicted last week of mail fraud tied to their vacation brokerage offices in New York and Texas. Carlisle Rountree received five years in prison while his brother drew one year and one day plus a fine, per Federal Judge Vincent L. Lebell.
Norton Virginia dispatch reports a theory that C Porter an electrical equipment salesman was abducted and driven to death in his car over a 300 foot embankment in Pike County Kansas. Fred King Norton undertaker noted Porters valuables missing and blood on a tea door.
A federal grand jury indicted 36 people in a vast mail fraud scheme tied to the Jacob Baker Heirs estate. Promoters allegedly collected millions from over 3000 victims, with three groups based in Johnstown Altoona and Pittsburgh and leaders named including Cameron Smith Emory Liken Biddle and two Pittsburgh housewives.
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