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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1931
Page
4
YWCA campaign totals show 125 workers attending a daily meeting at a church hall. Team captains reported 104 sales toward the budget, with Hornaday listing 2500 in initial sites and a day plan of 4460. Mrs. Francis F. Hays’ team won 473 for the day's effort, while Mrs. Tran Pallery’s team placed second. Bishop W T Capers was set to speak next.
Sound newsreel chronicles a winter play in San Antonio featuring children from city playgrounds entertaining disabled war veterans at Fort Sam Houston. A Fox cameraman records the outcome as the third in a string of recent winter productions.
Ten nationally known figures headline a pepula performance airing at o o clock Thursday night on the American Ted Crocs broadcast for one hour during the inter val of the campaign. Speakers include Galvin Coolidge Alfred H. Smith Mary Pickford Will Nogers Mrs August Helpiont Amos nd Andy Mme Schumann Weink Frieda Hemple and John Horton Cayne Coolidge speaks from his home in Northampton Smith from New York Coyne from Washington others in NYC studios. Also at 0 30 KTLA airs the seventeenth annual Philadelphia Sports Writers association dinner with guests Hoekne Landis Dykes Leonarc Mackey Wiener Fabiani Gardiner and Mackey. Would be architects list the American Board of the pram at 1 80 Friday over KTSA Harvey Wiley Corbet outlines profession and future world fair buildings in Chicago. Three harbour dance programs on KTSA feature Casa Loma orchestra at 7 15 Ben Bernie at 10 and Bernie Cumming at 10 30 pm.
Cliff Henderson, named race supervisor for National Alp races, flies from San Antonio to the Pacific coast to oversee five-year assignment at Cleveland. He and pilot EB W Cleveland will present Miss Gladys O Donnell, winner of the Women’s Air Derby, with the gilded trophy at Long Beach California. Henderson has directed national air races for the past three years, accompanied by Capt. Frank Butr and Dr. Ma R Tt Gehmalt of Cleveland.
A dense schedule of radio shows, music, dances, and lectures across stations WOAI, NB C, KONO, KTSA, and more. Entries name times, programs, dance bands, and featured artists such as Mary Pickford, Will Rogers, and Cal Coolidge, with many hour-by-hour segments and weather briefings.
A new patented tube design claims four rigid supports, one at each corner of a square, making tubes sturdier than the common 110-volt variants. The four pillars cradle delicate elements, shielding them from shocks during shipment and from vibration, improving reception and reliability while converting old radios into modern performers.
Calvin Coolidge and Alfred Smith will speak on the Red Cross program over WOAL at eight o’clock Thursday night. The hour by hour schedule includes music and talks with various presenters. a noon matinee and multiple programs fill the day on KMAG and KMLOC stations. A separate report from New York notes Ralph Lewie Jr. indicted for conspiracy in distributing ginger extract beverage.
A play titled The Mystery of the Third Gable by Linsey Bathes will be performed at the Negro library and community house Blackberry and Center meets on February 10. The event is organized by the Negro de Cheater and city recreation department, announced Thursday by J W Hemminga director of recreations for Negroes. Edgar Slogers director of the mur aivinal band will provide music between acts.
Tarantan 22 years old remains unidentified after last seen near the Rio Grande region. Authorities pursue clues about a man taken from the Canal area, with Mexican authorities reportedly not sharing further details. Bi remains in stately care as investigations continue.
Senator Joseph I. Robinson of Arkansas urged a five day week or eight hour day and creation of reserves to bridge periods of unemployment in a senate address at the annual banquet of the National Crushed Stone Association. The speech called for preventive actions to combat future joblessness.
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