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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1932
Page
3
Washington Feb 11 a large bloc of representatives from big industries backs a general sales tax of one or two percent as a main feature of the new revenue bill. The house ways and means committee appointed seven to study the proposal today.
Mrs. Martha Pugh described her husband Jesse ducking her at a Halloween party as cruelty. Judge Daniel P. Tree granted her a divorce with alimony of 10 a week.
Boston reports consider John M. Garner as a possible national candidate. Massachusetts observers weigh Garner as an economical, Coolidge style leader who might attract Southern support and those North who prize fiscal restraint, with Baker and Ritchie prospects fading under current sentiment.
Indictment charging Harris of 306 Huena Vista Street with swindling by check over 50 dollars was quashed and the case dismissed by Judge W. Anderson in the Bidgarveagh District Court Thursday. For the utmost In want ad service call Light ad writer at Crockett 2400.
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Two of fourteen writers and journalists abducted in Pineville Kentucky arrived in Knoxville with severe injuries. Taub and Frank members of the Writers relief committee for striking coal miners were wounded after being forced from a car at the Tennessee line. Police earlier said they left the state to avoid jail, while the writers’ committee claims a kidnapping.
Cadet J. A. Barnes piloted the pane when a battery replacement was taken to Fort StM Thursday by Lieut. O. A. Anderson, Kelly Geld phlot. Barnes is making an extended cross country flight to Fort St. and El Paso.
Girding themselves in Jeffersonian doctrine, Bexar county women form the Alpina City Woman's Democratic club as affiliate to the Women's National Democratic club. Officers include Mrs. Richard Burleson president and Dr. Mary King Robbie vice president. Headquarters at Plaza hotel. meetings at Bright Shawl. Club aims to nominate a candidate Texans will loyally support and to block Republican influence, with a drive to boost membership beyond 2500.
Nine Gypsy men accuse George Adams a Gypsy investigator of extortion assault and battery after he allegedly demanded 2300 dollars. They say he then arrested them on framed charges of dwindling San Saba persons when they refused payment. The nine Gypsies were arrested but released when the San Saba group did not identify them.
Boston officials report Mayor Curley proposes selling all city owned automobiles to save around 50,000 annually. The city council supports the plan as a move to balance the budget amid fiscal strain.
Secretary of War Hurley and Senators King and Hawes engaged in a heated exchange over the Hawes Cutting bill on Philippine independence. Hurley called the bill cowardly, Hawes denied any justification for such a claim, and King warned Hurley about administration challenges. The wide public dispute ended without resolution amid tense rhetoric and accusations of witness intimidation.
Five members of the naval committee failed to retain Lieutenant Commander Charles F. Rosendahl as Akron commander by a ten to five vote. Admiral William A. Moffett said the transfer to sea duty was needed for promotion qualification.
Three days after a jury found Winnie Huth Judd guilty of first degree murder with a mandatory death sentence, she remained emotionless as her sensational trial for killing Agnes Anne LeRni unfolded in Phoenix.
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