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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1933
Page
12
The column blends fears over money and exchange rates with a Wimbledon report. It notes Roosevelt's vacation gains and wage pressures while flagging planned wheat taxes, railroad ambitions, and a Bolshevik dismissal, all amid a panorama of global economic anxiety and sport headlines.
President Roosevelt issues a ringing appeal to Democratic Southern states to repeal the eighteenth amendment. In a telegram to Alabama national committeeman Leon McCord he insists the party platform supports repeal and asks Congress to propose a constitutional amendment for state conventions to act. He notes many states are holding conventions while reaffirming his loyalty to the Democratic program.
A former chief of federal prohibition forces in the Rocky Mountain region has been named president of a North Colorado manufacturing company that claims to operate the only plant in the United States approved for distilling Montana potato spirits. Jackson has accepted the post, announced today.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry Roosevelt will inspect naval shore stations and yards on both coasts aboard the cruiser Raleigh. The Raleigh will depart Newport on July 22 for the inspection tour.
Joseph B. Lawrence, 93, of TASKWELL VIRGINIA died today after four years of transfusions donated by friends. Officials say he received 125 blond transfusions, thought to be a world record. Weather outlook for San Antonio area shows cloudy Sunday with lows around 7 degrees and highs near 94, light to moderate southerly winds. East Texas forecast partly cloudy with scattered showers along the coast, light to fresh southeast winds, generally fair Sunday.
In Chicago a judge ordered Lorraine Jaswick released from St Mary of Nazareth Hospital after her unemployed father Edwin Jaswick could not pay the bill. The court condemned the hospital for false imprisonment and demanded immediate release of the frail girl, whose sister Dolores helped shield her.
A prisoner at Uninn station denies involvement in the June Li massacre that killed four officers and a fellow prisoner. He declares his innocence as federal agents seek him for questioning linked to mysterious calls after Frank Nash, the escaped convict, was killed in the Kansas City massacre. He is held in his jail cell in Hot Springs awaiting transfer to Kansas City.
A man identified as A. Morris, formerly Bishop, was arrested on June 30 and held by officers en route to New Orleans. He faces embezzlement charges for taking $37,000 from Whitney National Bank during March. About $3,100 in bondsmen’s funds were turned over to a surety company representatives accompanying New Orleans officers.
Washington July 1 weekly revenue freight landings totaled 934 073 crs. The American Railway Association announced an increase of 24 408 cars above the preceding week and a decrease of 8 for the same week last year.
Sir Anthony Hope, noted novelist and playwright, died at home in Walton Heath at age 70. Best known for The Lantern of Zend, Hope wrote under the pseudonym Anthony Hawkins after knighthood in 1918. He was married to Elizabeth Somerville, daughter of Cyrus Sheldon of New York.
Three American mariners rescued after spending three days adrift when their 40 foot fishing vessel sank off the Mexican coast. They were flown to Brownsville in a rescue plane and taken to hospital for treatment after sighting by Pilot Harold Gray.
A Tierra Nuevo Laredo and Tamaulipas leaders appeal for aid after a tropical hurricane devastates Tamaulipas state and coastal towns. Governor Rafael Villarreal called for relief funds, food, clothing and bedding as relief efforts begin to reach storm struck areas.
Reports from Monterey and Camargo in Mexico describe the tropical hurricane driving heavy rains into Tamaulipas and surrounding areas. The Rio Grande near Hidalgo south of McAllen is rising as San Juan and Santa Caterina spill into the river, threatening flood conditions across the border region.
In Chicago on July, members of the Restaurateurs association of Illinois voted to begin reviving nickel beer as amber fluid flow returns. The push follows a heated lunch debate and prompted discussion on future beer prices and service in local taverns.
Washington July reports show licensed pilots at 12 059 for July with 18 060 aircraft registered. The gap reflects more pilots than planes, a condition noted by the commerce department amid rising licensed activity and a partial decline in uncertified craft.
A heavy downpour drenched the Alice area flooding central roads and lowlands near the town. Floodwaters covered several feet, washed away small houses, damaged a section of the highway, and caused lamp and property damage in nearby low-lying sections.
Houston report says at Guadalupe yyer events two cars collided when a trailer swerved, killing T. H. Truitt 36 of Goose Creek Eden Duffie 30 sales clerk for Texas company at Houston and Tfrey of Goose Creek. The roadster wrecked and two men died instantly the third died en route to hospital.
Los Angeles reports the marriage of Colonel McClellan Barclay, a noted artist, ended in a divorce. Helene Marie Has sem obtained a fault divorce from Barclay before Judge Didley S. Valentine on grounds of cruelty, after a canoe ceremony on a Marine lake.
LUFKIN Texas May 6 R E Campbell employe of the state sanitary commission was discharged without bond today after a preliminary hearing on charges of job selling He was arrested last Saturday at Nacogdoches W W Hinson testified that he paid Campbell 74 in two payments to secure a district tick eradication manager job
Miss Marian Buckley, a Cleveland college student, was reportedly seen in St Louis on Monday. Fire Captain Walter H. Bammann told police he saw a young woman in white trousers and a green shirt resembling the missing student’s pictures.
President Roosevelt again directs the world economic conference through Secretary Hull, urging discussion of price levels, trade practices, and credit policy to reduce artificial barriers. Hull outlines an American agenda amid a split French, Belgian, Italian, Dutch bloc, stressing unity and urgent action.
Police are investigating a report of a car dash incident on Florida Street. Residents near 700 Clowk reported a disturbance and a woman was allegedly forced into a vehicle before it sped away.
John D Rockefeller observes his 94th birthday with a private routine at his Potasitica estate in Tarrytown New York. He golfed, napped, drove the grounds, and enjoyed a birthday cake with family before a quiet dinner adding candles equal to decades.
Senator Norris denounces the power trust and refroads for the St. Lawrence waterway, saying the project would save electricity users in New York state millions annually. He calls the plan a major national waterway effort with wide regional impact amid ongoing policy battles.
In Greeley Colorado beer was sold openly despite a District Judge’s earlier refusal to issue an order forcing the city council to permit Mrs. Mabel Anderson and Fred N. Peten to operate under federal and state licenses.
Judge T. Harlon, who presided over the second Patterson trial, announces he will not hear the remaining trials. He cites lack of sufficient evidence as grounds for removal and disqualification from further Scottsboro proceedings.
Wallace pleads from Washington for cotton farmers to enroll in the acreage reduction plan as extension to collect 11,300,000 acres of cotton is announced through next Wednesday. The one-half cent a pound processing tax for the 1934 wheat reduction program also takes effect at midnight.
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