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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1937
Page
4
Washington report says administration pushes to reenact a processing tax on sugar voided by the Supreme Court. Secretary Wallace at a press conference notes the tax would be likely unconstitutional but could accompany a companion bill to fund payments to U S farmers growing sugar beets and cane.
The Supreme Court memorialized Charles B. Witt of Waco Frank Andrews of Houston and Howard Templeton of San Antonio. Resolutions on their deaths were entered in the minutes and bar association members paid verbal tributes to Andrews and Templeton. Associate Justice John Sharp spoke on behalf of the court.
An older boys employment bureau will reopen under the supervision of Walter Kuehne. David B. Koch announced Thursday that the bureau will operate free of charge to members of the association and will be overseen by MiG A Oye division.
Representatives were expected from Arkansas Tennessee Missouri and Oklahoma for the Southern Tenant Farmers Union convention in Muskogee Oklahoma opening today and to continue through Saturday. A separate report notes a record seizure of opium valued at $100000 from the Blue Funnel liner Maron in New York, described as one of the largest smuggled dope seizures in party history.
San Antonio police arrested two men Thursday after seizing a camera and related equipment valued at 200 dollars. Officers BR. C. Shef field and J. A. Strickland said the men tried to sell the gear to a Houston street loan company.
Outside Madrid on January 14 fascist officers quoted government prisoners describing five French battalions from the socialist international brigade rushed from the El Escorial-Guadarama front for an attack in the Madrid sector. Government tanks burned as crews trapped by insurgent trenches in a fog were set alight after fascists hurled gasoline bottles and exploded hand grenades.
Rabbi Ephraim Frisch and temple officers travel to New Orleans for the American Hebrew congregations gathering starting Friday. Sylvan Lang and Nat Goldsmith lead the Temple Hebert officials while Mrs. Dave Pincus heads the Sisterhood to join the National Federation meetings. Rose Bernard of San Antonio appears on the program. Services will be conducted in Frisch's absence by Lewis Lee Friday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 10:30 a.m.
In Lucknow a Brahmin widow self immolates on her husband’s funeral pyre amid a long standing Brahmin rite near a temple at Agia. A crowd witnessed the act as conch shells and cymbals masked the widow’s screams until she died before police arrived. Several arrests followed as headlines note broader wartime shortages.
Moscow reports extensive 1996 construction including new schools and hundreds of housing units. The city also paved more than a million square yards of streets and expanded public works across multiple districts.
During the special session of the Seventy Third Congress between March and June 16 1993 the first session under Roosevelt 105 laws were enacted.
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