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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1933
Page
2
Postmaster P. G. Lota said 36 mail trucks braved a cold wave as a dawn crew played a chaotic prank. The fronted fleet rolled around the streets as drivers joked about a “cocktail” of conflicts and confusion.
In Washington D C the electoral vote count proceeds with Franklin D Roosevelt and John N Garner expected to receive 472 votes for president and vice president, while Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis are recorded at 59 votes. The scene features Curtis presiding and Garner assisting amid formal ceremony and balloting.
Judge William F. Buell, longtime San Antonio attorney and former Seventy third District Court judge who fled here last Saturday, left an estate valued at $59 in probate court. His widow received his property and law library. the library was to go to partner J. Db. Dodson. The will requests the firm retain the name Dodson and Evil.
The weather report fragment describes precipitation totals around .05 inch for Wednesday and 1.66 inches for January, with other values like .76 inch cited. It mentions Flying Weather and varying conditions across regions including San Antonio, New Orleans, and Rome, noting generally fair air with some gusty winds and changing ceilings.
Unusual fogs off the coast disrupt water shipments along the Morgan and adjacent routes. H A Lochter assistant general-relief agent of the Southern Pacific railroad set a Wednesday timetable for resumption and relief efforts.
Mrs Dillehay testified that Pickett entered the bedroom, kissed her, warned she would be killed if her husband moved, and kept his gun on her. She described being shot and wounded in the arm and breast as her husband struggled. Her husband corroborated the struggle and said Pickett fired two shots, hitting his wife. The defense hinted at insanity but offered no follow up.
Senate takes up interim department appropriation bill. Committee resumes headings on 30 hour work week. Agriculture committee meets to redraft domestic allotment farm relief plan. Banking committee begins draft of emergency mortgage relief legislation. House holds full session with senate to count electoral votes. Silver hearings continue before coinage committee. Banking committee considers farm mortgage legislation. Tuesday update notes removal of David S. Mary from sergeant at arms and a treasury-pon office bill with economy provisions. Banking committee agrees to fast emergency mortgage relief bill.
The account describes a home invasion where a man battered the victim with a pistol and fired. The assailant fled after a window was smashed during the struggle. Witnesses testified that Pickett Mnally was the intruder and that the victim’s husband had barely survived the attack.
Two city streetcar lines will yield to motor buses on San Antonio streets next Sunday as the Public Service Company begins abandoning trolley routes. Col W H Tustin announces the Denver Heights Beacon Airline and Tobin Hill Highland Park Line will be scrapped as new buses arrive from the factory and spare old buses are retired.
A British proposal for a lump sum debt settlement draws mixed reaction in Washington. Democratic leader Rainey of Illinois denounces it as nonsense while arguing the United States bears most of the war bonds’ burden. Hailey notes American investors would reject British bonds as too risky.
Speaker Garner told reporters organized minorities hampered Congress from cutting government expenses. He said the party preferred strict supply measures but supported granting President elect Roosevelt broad powers to abolish federal bureaus and functions as the Senate backed a move to reorganize the federal government.
In Java, Feb reports say Ai Army navy and Avalon units aided attempts to recapture the Dutch cruiser Zeven Provincien, still at large in the Indian Ocean with a mutinous crew holding eight Dutch officers. The mutineers aimed to avoid surrender until Sourabaya base reached. The pursuing government steamer Evidane continued the chase.
Newspaper ad copy urges readers to try harmless Cream of Nujol as a daily bowel cleansing treatment. It claims the product removes intestinal poisons, causes no cramps, costs only a few cents a day, and promotes health with regular use. One bottle covers over two weeks. Read and use light want ads for quick results.
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