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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1937
Page
3
Miss Kalie T. Ross received a $60 contempt of court fine from Judge John F. Onion in seventy third District Court after she refused to vacate the house at 120 Hedges Street following a receiver’s order to take possession. Litigation over the property continues.
Long running dispute began with Charley Bellinger a parolee real estate operator asserting ownership through a 45th District judgment. Judge Tayloe and Judge Stevens upheld prior claims, appointing receiver Guy P. Allison to sell the land while Miss Ross faced contempt for remaining on the premises despite orders to vacate.
Trustees of Texas Christian University authorize a campaign to raise 81 000 000 for endowment, new buildings and improvements to the physical plant at their annual meeting in Fort Worth. A Wheeler chairs the board’s finance committee and announces the drive while noting the university’s history and operations during 1996.
A well dressed armed bandit robbed the Pryor Liquor store at 1624 Broadway on Thursday night, taking about $50 from the cash register before fleeing to a waiting car. George Fryar, owner, and clerk Gilbert Rosas reported the incident. several others in the store were threatened as the gunman demanded money. City detective T. T. Posten was investigating.
Col and Mrs Lindbergh lingered in Rome postponing a flight to Tripoli or Cairo. The American aviator and his wife toured the Vatican museums and the Sistine Chapel under Italian police protection as their orange and black monoplane waited.
In north China the Japanese army warned it may assume suppressive duties if China fails to restore peace. They cited mutinous Communist armies and Chang Hsien-liang forces in Shenst provinces as reasons for possible independent action to quell the rising Red activity.
Frederick William Tilbury a 26 year old Pittsburgh research chemist employed by Gulf Refining who killed himself with an army pistol in a Philadelphia taproom. Police found a note in his coat pocket saying only one person knows but liquor wasn't all and then a cryptic line about teaching the devil how to dance. The item also mentions Irene Dunne singing Kern music in Paramount's High Wide and Handsome following Romance.
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