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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1935
Page
3
In Waco on January 11, police pursued a kidnapping case involving Don Waltonberg, president of Baylor University sophomore class and toastmaster for a banquet. A band of freshmen allegedly snatched him, but authorities had few clues and radio dispatches described suspects.
Chicago report details Samuel Harrison known as marrying justice who after officiating 1500 marriages admitted his own marriage failed. He had wed Emma Christensen during a long honeymoon period while promising to marry others free of charge to spouses’ families. Emma is his former wife. no divorce filed. The piece notes confusion over the couple’s status.
Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, married 14 years, dissolved their union in Los Angeles after a three minute hearing. Pickford testified to mental cruelty and neglect while Fairbanks declined comment. The couple, once linked to Pickfair in Beverly Hills, had separated amid rumors of romance with others.
ST PAUL Jan 1 A few hushed students at the University of Minnesota remained after winter quarter exams answering a peculiar multiple choice question listing figures such as the Dalai Lama described as a former premier of France Theodore Bilbo a Mississippi senator and an Italian aviator who led a 1933 air squadron Dorothy Thompson twice of Sinclair Lewis and Bugh S Johnson former NRA administrator named as Mississippi senators The odd item reflects a misplaced or error ridden exam prompt from the era
The famed Fairbanks co correspondent Lad danced until 4 a m after her recent divorce. Inquiries about a possible marriage drew no comment from either party, with no confirmation or denial issued.
Washington, Jan. 11 A proposed program by the Immigration Commission led by Col MacCormack would deport aliens convicted of state narcotics crimes weapon offenses or crimes involving moral turpitude or aiding in smuggling. The plan aims to curb alien racketeers and gangsters with deportation powers. An international A-6 three ton truck with enclosed cab is for sale at 1500 under classification 75 in light classifieds.
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