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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1936
Page
1
President Roosevelt, reassured by 26 00000 voters, pledges action on minimum wage hours and child labor. He signals revival of NRA aims and plans to outline a concrete labor program in coming messages to Congress and a member-employer study.
London dispatch reports a United States firm, Theland Exploration Co. of New York, secured a 270000 square mile concession in Afghanistan described as the greatest untapped oil field. Ogden Mills, former treasury secretary, is named among the prominent backers alongside Charles Athl and Frederick Griggs in high diplomatic circles.
Exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotzky planned to seek asylum in Mexico after leaving Norway on December 19. Reports say he aimed to persuade the Mexican government to offer refuge as his life could be endangered if he remained in current locations. The tanker Rath carrying Trotzky and his wife was to bypass a Texas call and proceed directly to Tampico, Mexico.
San Pranciesco reports a coast strike near standstill as negotiations stall. Government mediator Edwart F. McGrady said plans to return to Washington aim to pressure congressional action. Unions form a mediation committee and plan lobbying with congress opening.
Judge Rg McMilnn of the Federal District Court Wednesday granted the Monte 677 company a four month injunction restraining Mrs G F Kiester and others from pressing claims to part interest in an oil gas and mining lease in Grege County Ly.
Jersey City reports the Dollar Line fleet of 14 ships faces a marine strike causing a near total shutdown. Company officials say no ships will be in service in the Far East or on world cruises for the first time in 13 years. President Harrison is due to dock today from a world voyage, amplifying the crisis.
In Clanton Alabama the waste basket served as a cache for money. Tex Astes or T L McKee found heavy collections and hid 480 dollars in bills in the basket. After the bank closed thieves entered and took money from the drawer while the basket remained untouched.
London reports the death of Fanny Lucy Houston, England's wealthiest woman and longtime benefactor known as England's lady bountiful. She inherited substantial wealth in 1926 after her second husband Sir Revert Houston’s passing and funded hospitals, charities, and government efforts including the Everest expedition and air race sponsorship. She also published the weekly Saturday Review and supported suffragists.
In Denver the state health secretary described influenza and pneumonia as reaching a mild epidemic. Reports attributed 99 child deaths in the district over three weeks to the outbreak, the most extensive since 1918, according to health officials.
A conference of state and territorial health officers urged a 25000 emergency federal appropriation to combat the spread of syphilis and gonorrhea. Kentucky health commissioner Avihwer T. McCormick presented the request as part of an effort to fund an adequate venereal disease control program.
Harvey Gravell, owner of American Chemical Paint Co in Ambler, paid off debts for 76 employees including mortgages and loans, totaling about 100000 dollars, and extended the gesture to workers at plants in New Castle Delaware Detroit and Walkersville Ontario. He said the act was both selfishly practical and a rightful share for those who built his business now valued at one million.
Paris reports a looming general food workers strike as government sets a 40 hour week. Delegation led by Leon Jouhaux warns the Premier and requests action. Strikes hit both retail and wholesale plants, with several wounded as protests flare amid fears of food shortages and rising costs from franc devaluation.
Vicente Cortes Herrera undersecretary of communications and public works was traveling to the United States to study modern highway construction methods. He would drive to Laredo Texas to study flood control along the Rio Grande valley, visit El Paso, then proceed to New Orleans for the January highway engineers convention representing the Mexican government.
New York report notes steel production remained high in the first quarter with sufficient orders keeping mills at undiminished rates. Heavy buying eased in recent weeks as fourth quarter price protections were withdrawn, with production for the week estimated near 91 percent, indicating a dull recovery from Christmas holidays.
An old brief touts a simple no cooking cough remedy using 2 cups sugar 1 cup water dissolved, then pine resin extract blended and poured into a bottle to yield a potent expectorant. The ad promises quick relief from coughs due to colds and claims strong soothing effects on air passages and inflamed membranes. It emphasizes easy preparation with pine resin tincture and a money back guarantee if not pleasing.
Wendin Mortimer president of the United Automobile Workers International says the situation at the Mischer Body plant cannot be solved by local management and must be treated as a national issue. Labor officials hope to reconcile the strike at the Cleveland plant and end idle work as sitdowns continue at other GM plants in Kansas City and Atlanta.
Workers at Kelkey Wheel in Windsor Ontario returned to machines after settlement talks. A sit down strike continued at Walker Michigan plant in Jackson with about 100 of 450 employees involved. Union seeks 85 cents an hour, union recognition, and reinstatement of two dismissed organizers. Plant officials offered no comment.
World markets will close Friday New Year’s observance and many will extend the holiday through Saturday January 2 as surveyed. Major exceptions include New York Stock Exchange and American securities markets which follow the holiday schedule. The notice appears in the Light Classified ads section.
Flint Mich Dec A sit down strike closed Fisher Body Plant No 2 of General Motors. About twelve hundred workers on the day shift were affected and the total plant employs about three thousand. Union officials cited protest against alleged discrimination linked to recent union member dismissals. Company officials reported no trouble at Plant No 2, which supplies bodies for Buick, Pontiac, Cadillac, Olds, and other GM units.
Coroner’s jury will investigate the sudden death of Mrs. Dorothea Peterson Carson 31 of Tulsa Oklahoma after she took poison during a drinking party in her apartment Witham Carr 31 and ex husband Chester Warner Carson 40 were questioned by police and were to appear at the inquest today in the city reporting.
In Boston crowds pressed to glimpse Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt and Miss Pont their activity moved to private rooms as Franklin Roosevelt recovers from a streptococcal threat infection and sinus operation at Massachusetts General Hospital. Officials said the president's son continued to improve during the hospital stay.
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