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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1937
Page
2
A historic parade featuring an elephant will be held Friday to raise flood relief funds for San Antonio. Led by Mayor K. Quin and city commissioners, the downtown demonstration will advertise the Elks benefit and start at 8 p.m.
Friday night events include a parade forming at the Municipal auditorium. The route runs via Houston street Main avenue Cary merce Alamo plaza and back to the auditorium before a WPA Federal theater production Around the Gamer directed by Maria Ascarra Wagner. Juan Macha conducts a 30 piece WPA Federal Music Project symphony The Elks coordinate receipts to aid flood sufferers. Tickets sold from all shops.
Two dissatisfied heirs Edwin K. and Alice B. Atwood of Chicago seek a federal receiver for the King Ranch in South Texas. Judge T M Kenherty set March 6 for the hearing and asked attorneys to take depositions beforehand. The Atwoods claim mismanagement and improper division by trustees of the nation’s largest cattle domain.
The Alice chamber of commerce will conduct a city wide survey Friday to establish hazards and unsanitary conditions. The Boy Scouts troops of the city will participate as part of National Boy Scout week, aiding the program.
The six month non negotiation pledge by William Knudsen to Governor Murphy ends a 44 day strike at Fisher Body and Chevrolet plants. United Auto Workers and GM officials signed a settlement after Governor Murphy and Dewey mediated. Resumption of operations to follow once plants evacuate and security is set.
Firefighters responding to a Duluth Minnesota blaze found smoke rising through a snow crust from a peat bog likely smoldering since summer. They piled on more snow and returned to the station.
Anthony Velller adapted Maxwell Andersons Winterset for an RKO screen version and collaborated with Ethel Borden on The Woman I Love script starring Paul Munn and Miriam Hopkins.
Willacy county announces 18 contenders for Queen Nono of the tenth annual Onion Fiesta in April. Notables include Vivian Tuma Olga Shearin Fermey Evans Sarah Williams Helen Lewise Wester Mary Sle Wheeler Loraine Codner Mae Gaston Gwendolyn Skrauss Marian Shrader Eloise Cheney Berths Wilde Mary Lee Hedrick Wilms Owen Lillian Gok Mary Heten Hardy Elma Bar r. Dia Pigat cites want ad results.
Delegates to the International Society of Master Painters and Decorators discussed the newly elected social security program during Thursday sessions. Oscar M. Powell of the San Antonio district opened remarks, with a luncheon at the Plaza hotel and a visit to Aldine Downs. Speakers included Silystine BuIion Garter, Morton P. Walsh, Wallace Cornell, and Roland D. Doane outlining home maker tastes, publicity, film-based job leads, and sales tools. The gathering will elect officers Friday and hear committee reports as Isidore and Maurice Ostrer conclude their U.S. stay.
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