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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1934
Page
2
Chicago ends five day milk blockade after Mayor Edward J. Kelly mediates a conference with wetting factions. Arbitrators to aid price talks. deliveries to resume this afternoon as pickets halt highway protests and shipments restart. A train block near Wadsworth disrupted service briefly.
Violence erupts across the line near Itasca and the Wisconsin border with trains halted for over an hour and a crowd firing shots at Emil Beis hier’s home. Police dispersed about 100 protesters while postal authorities warn against obstructing mail during the era’s labor unrest.
A traveling salesman reported a hidden bandit hideout on the Frio City road near San Antonio. Detectives found five pistols in holsters, a rifle, rifles, handcuffs, and ten pairs of handcuffs at the well site with deputies called to secure the area.
The Junior Chamber of Commerce donated $100 toward the Child’s Protective and Humanz Society home at a meeting held Tuesday night at the Gunter Hotel. HH Ochs, president of the home’s board, received the check from Joni Jones, meeting chair.
Leading authorities note nerve exhaustion can lead to weakness and illness. An observer claims a new method aids sufferers and plans to share details via a mail inquiry from Jersey City.
Two 13 year old youths dressed well tried to rob taxicab driver Fred Neeley at Union Bus terminal. Neeley drew a pistol and forced the teens to drop their knives. Police captured both fugitives minutes later as others reported burglaries overnight.
The Texas state highway commission proclaimed yesterday that counties must furnish right of way free to the state for future road construction. The policy comes as the commission has been advancing funds to counties to obtain right of way, with these advances deducted from future road grants.
Dallas officials announce the Ford assembly plant will reopen February 1 under CG. B. Ostrander, branch manager. The plant will run on a 250 car per day schedule, with capacity production of 330 cars on a one shift basis after an eight year closure.
Postmaster BP Lucas reported 25 bids received for the mail transport contract from Bandera to San Antonio. The government will award the contract on January 18. The note references a “Fast sid furious” wedding detail.
Lieutenant Colonel Joseph A. Green, assistant chief of staff for supply at Eighth Corps area headquarters, departed Tuesday for El Paso and sites in Arizona and New Mexico to inspect CCC activities.
A historical weather summary reports January temperature norms and rainfall. It notes 1.46 inches of precipitation for the month to date, a 0.05 inch deficiency, and 41 inches total since January. It lists last readings including moonrise and moonset times and tides for the area, with Wednesday night and Thursday morning times given.
Dr John H Burleson, president of the hospital board, issued a denial Wednesday over treatment of patients able to pay elsewhere. County Attorney Davis pledged to probe emergency cases and refer those able to pay to other hospitals, amid complaints doctors oppose county hospital competition. The board says it uses an investigator to determine financial ability and then sends patients home or to another facility. A modern-room house ad appears at the end with a price and classification line.
In a January dispatch from Rome about Mussolini’s press, the article warns that Pu Yi, the deposed Chinese emperor, is to be elevated as emperor of Manchukuo by Manchu and Japanese rulers. The piece frames this as a broader imperial drive to first seize China and then push into broader Asia, with Japan benefiting and the United States facing Pacific tension.
Tokyo reports a secret plan to raise an independent infantry corps with several regular divisions, boosting active duty manpower by about 100000. Conscripts would serve two years as Japan also refines anti gas and cold weather uniforms and adopts a new machine gun. In Peiping, Tokyo promised aid to Gungho Manchukuo under Henry Pu Yi’s accession, with coronation set for March 4 and clarified borders not extending into outer Mongolia.
Dr Johan McDowell newly elected moderator of the general assembly of the Presbyterian Church USA will arrive in Ban Antonng Thursday for an official Southwest visit. He will address Austin Presbytery at Madison Square Presbyterian church at 10 a m and speak to the San Antonio Ministers Association at the Y M M A at 11 a m The ministers postponed their meeting to welcome him. Public is invited to both addresses officials say.
Cambridge Massachusetts January 10. Harvard University scientist Dr Earnest A Hooton warned that tooth decay and malformation could endanger the human race unless cures are found. He presented the claim today, stressing need for dental research and public health attention.
Tests of an improved ambulance parachute at Kelly Field used dummy patients to prove safer descents. The system eliminates patient ripcord pulling by automatic opening after a 18 foot rush, with a ripcord attached to the litter. Master Sergeant Ralph W. Boltrel led the tests under Major J. C. Johnston’s suggestion and the parachute department’s direction.
More than 20 000 Heimwehr members mobilize in Austria to back Chancellor Dollfuss in a bid to replace the Nazi influence and establish a pure fascist regime, contingent on Dollfuss’s assurances.
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