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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1933
Page
7
A formal statement closing the recently renewed inquiry into the death of Paul Bern, motion picture executive and husband of Jean Harlow, was forecast by District Attorney Baron Fitts. Foreman of the county grand jury did not indicate support for reopening the probe.
District Attorney Walter Tynan left Tuesday for Washington D C to witness the inaugural ceremony for the new president. He expected to return around March 7 or 8 and downplayed any significance to his trip.
A fragmented note references a requested service by Nate, mentions Billy Burke the Cleaner, and a location Beandyayme 401. It appears to be a terse instruction line about completing the finest work thoroughly with a focus on operation details. No clear event or outcome is described.
The Bexar commissioners court authorized County Judge Frost Woodhull to enter into a contract with the San Antonio Public Service Company for courthouse lighting and power under industrial rates. Judge Woodhull said the agreement should save about $300 annually and would remove the courthouse meters.
AUSTIN Feb 28 The bill by Senator Ernest Felbbaum Sr of San Antonio would reduce Bexar county court reporters minimum pay to 2400 per year and allow district judges to raise to 3000 at their discretion.
Mildred Harrigan suggests using city land to create a vast rose garden as a permanent asset. She cites Paris and Hartford as examples and urges community volunteers and a landscape architect to design, plant, and fund the garden with contributions of rose bushes.
A letter to The Light from February 15 argues Houston police and fire crews risk their lives for low pay. The writer asks commissioners to raise pay from 758 to 1,150 monthly, compare with Chicago, demand uniforms and laundry, hot coffee in cold weather and cold beer in heat, and criticizes current compensation.
Paris reports Andre Lefebvre de la Boulaye, a close ally of the President elect, designated to replace Paul Claudel as French ambassador in Washington. Sources note Boulaye’s role aims to advance a new debt agreement with the United States.
In Hong Kong on February 28 pirates attacked the Danish seamer Gustav Diederichsen en route to Swatow, holding officers at gunpoint and abducting three first class passengers. The attackers jammed the wireless before fleeing with captives. In Oklahoma City on February 28 Sheriff Blaney Rogers reports a large whiskey seizure, bottling the liquor to expand his evidence room as courts lag in destruction orders.
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