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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1935
Page
1
City registrar of Vital Statistics reports 246 violent deaths in 1934. Thirty-one suicides, 69 homicides, 130 accidental deaths, plus 26 in other classifications. Firearms most common method. other causes include hunger, snake bite, burns, rail and auto crashes, poisonings, and falls.
Flemington New Jersey January 2 The courtroom opens for Bruno Hauptmann on trial for the Lindbergh baby murder. The article frames the case as a test of American justice and voices strong public emotion about the crime and the trial.
Emergency Relief Administration reports Texas families on relief rose 7.8 percent from October to November. PERA statistics show 213,349 families in October and 229,712 in November with unemployment relief obligations up from 323,857 to 4,005,384 dollars, a 216 percent jump. The national average expenditure increase was 12.1 percent.
Weather section lists temperatures and conditions across many U S and Canadian cities. Notes cloudy or clear skies with high and low temperatures for Brownsville Texas to Winnipeg Manitoba, plus mention of sunrise and sunset times and travel forecasts.
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