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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1933
Page
3
Colonel Lu H Taliaferro filed for divorce from Lurene Goudenow Taliaferro in district court with a cross complaint alleging cruelty. He claimed retirement pay of 325 dollars monthly and asked 75 dollars monthly for separate maintenance. A property agreement was said to have been reached and the suit may not be contested. They wed in New York in 1925.
Pasadena January 1. The article notes Albert Einstein returning to archaeology and viewing himself as a student at forty seven years in school. It highlights Abbe Georges Le Maître of the University of Louvain as the Jesuit priest now teaching Einstein, famed for founding the theory of relativity.
A beer measure with a 3-2 per cent proposal was introduced before a Senate committee in Washington for quick approval. The hearing showcased arguments on rapid enactment while noting several pending proposals to revise the measure due to constitutional objections and drafting concerns.
Kansas City reports a Denver bound bus hijack where two bandits boarded the vehicle on the intercity viaduct. One bandit died, the other fled after a struggle sparked by passenger heroism including David Taylor and John Donzelli. Herman Fuller of Reavener was found on the dead bandit.
In Austin on January 11 the Texas attorney general reported that the Mexican government commuted the death sentence of W. J. Meers, an American, to seven years in prison. Meers had been held for a firing squad after shooting a man in Juarez whom he believed to be his father’s killer. It later appeared he had mistaken the man’s identity.
Railroad employment continued the upturn started in September and reached the highest level since June 1932. After August saw 496,317 men, the first sub million year, October reports show 1,039,225 workers on U.S. railroads, with 1,010,440 in September.
CHICAGO Jan 11 A laborer Raffaele Perillo age 59 accused his wife of attempted poisoning and shot her six times at the breakfast table then notified police. He claimed the crime followed her alleged plot. Mrs Perillo mother of nine children.
Maj. Gen. Frank R. McCoy, who just finished work with the League of Nations commission on Manchuria, was ordered by the War Department to Fort Bliss to command the First Cavalry Division. The order came from Washington and assigns McCoy to Texas duties.
Corperal William Judd aged 92 and George Washington Brown fought to a draw in the Whiskerweight championship of America at St Petersburg Florida on Saturday. Referee Charles Eldredge counted to ten as seconds rushed in after the fourth round ended with no victor.
Mrs. Mary Mooney, recently traveling the country and Europe to win clemency for her son Tom Mooney, speaks at a Sacramento mass meeting urging support for his release and protestation of his alleged involvement in the 1916 Preparedness Day bombing and to demand clemency for life in San Quentin.
Justice John F. Onion ruled a verdict of death by own action in the death of Andrew Walshem, 72, veteran mail carrier at Terrell Wells. Witnesses cited ill health and despondency as factors after he allegedly shot himself in his home Tuesday afternoon. Funeral arrangements have not been entered.
Christie Mathewson Jr broke arms and legs and cried at funeral services for his bride of two weeks, Margaret Philips of Philadelphia, killed in an airplane crash that ended their honeymoon. His mother travelled from Hangzhou to attend and lay a wreath.
Ralph H. Chapman an 81 year old broker and his aunt Miss Ella L. Alford were attacked in a Pasadena driveway by gunmen from hid shrubbery. Chapman refused to aid police claiming he would reveal information if he believed he would die. Alford was wounded in body and face while Chapman was shot in the face multiple times. both were hospitalized with injuries.
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