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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1938
Page
2
Special Deputy Sheriff Preciliano Valenzuela was questioned by police regarding an alleged hammer assault on 23 year old truck driver Muristo Alona. Alona said Valenzuela jumped on the running board and beat him, grabbing a hammer from Alona’s truck and striking him first.
U S department of agriculture notes rising unfermented fruit juices and tomato juice sales from 1930 to 1938. A state map details Texas counties split on liquor legality with 109 counties prohibiting intoxicants and 145 permitting some or all, mainly south of the 32nd parallel.
Five white victims including J S Tillman 35 Eliza 24 and two daughters Ella 8 Cora Pearl 6 were found murdered in their Bay street extension home. An identified man Tom Chester about 40 was killed by a shotgun blast at a nearby filling station. Police say a lone assailant likely staged the Tillman killings to cover the crime.
San Antonio is one of several Texas cities highlighted in American Airlines Sun Country advertising. A 12 page booklet, issued by the airline, Texas, Arizona and Galira refers to the area as the sun country. Its theme proclaims it's summer all the time in the sun country.
Chinese pickets at Frisco docks ended their lines in support of a national campaign for a Japanese embargo. War material was loaded aboard the Greek freighter Savros and the British ship Beckeham, bound for Japan, under the agreement.
Vatican officials report Pope Pius XI, aged and frail, has relinquished plans to preside over the Holy Year inauguration. Doctors warned the strain could worsen exhaustion as the pontiff faced ongoing health decline.
Atlanta Dec 21 The committee on co operation and Union of the Presbyterian Church in the United States has perfected a permanent organization as a step toward union of Southern Presbyterians with other church branches. Dr Thomas Currie of Austin chaired yesterday meeting with 14 of 17 synod set representatives.
Willis R. Dearing 51 died of a heart ailment in a Dallas hospital after being stricken at a Houston hotel last Thursday. He began drilling water wells and later became an extensive operator, at the time of death operating 92 wells in East Texas. The funeral is planned for tomorrow afternoon in Dallas.
Representative Wright Patman of Texas stated he lectured on his chain stores tax bill years ago with no direct contact to McKesson and Robbins Drug Co. He said sponsorship came via a speaking bureau and that the firm did not pay him. He cited three national lectures, two for veterans’ compensation and one on the tax bill in 1938.
Joe Meyers head of the department of industrial teacher training University of Michigan Ann Arbor spent Tuesday inspecting San Antonio schools as part of a nationwide survey. He praised San Antonio Vocational and Technical High School and Luther Burbank School for their practical productive basis in education. Accompanying him were I W Fox San Antonio vocational education director and N S Hunsdon a member of the tech faculty and an old friend of the visitor.
London on December 21 Britain signed treaties with Sweden Norway Denmark and Finland to adhere to the 1926 London naval treaty. The accords were signed at the foreign office by Viscount Halifax and Earl Stanhope along with the ambassadors from the four nations.
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