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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1935
Page
2
A Pace horseman is held on an attack charge after a woman, Mrs. Georgia Thompson, alleges she was grabbed and assaulted in a hotel bathroom after being lured by promises of a job from a group at Club Royale. Police report injuries and an arrest was made as detectives pursued the case.
Brooks and Kelly fields, the only first class army flying fields in the country, are eyed for replacement by a modern plant under a planned housing and expansion program. Brooks field, showing more decay, has needed bracing to prevent collapse. The army’s Eighth Corps Area approved rebuilding plans with an estimated cost of 7.435 million dollars for Brooks and 5.438 million for Kelly, with work hoped to begin before year end.
Cecil Short, 23, who was wrongly sentenced to death yesterday due to a clerical error, was moved to Huntsville state penitentiary. He vowed to continue his fight for existence after Justice Nolan G. Williams sentenced him to death for the August 15 1934 killing during an 81 robbery. The appointment of March 2 as execution date followed the error in the governor’s gubernatorial commutation dated seven months earlier.
Fresh hostilities between Mongol and Japanese forces and Manchukuoan cavalry were reported along Manchukuo's frontier near outer Mongolia. Japanese military authorities announced a peace conference with Chinese and Japanese representatives chaired by General Sung Chon Yuan, to be held February 2 at Ta tat, outside the disputed border area where clashes occurred last week.
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