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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1933
Page
15
J P Hagan announces the Ace, the sixth Continental Red Seal car, as part of a trio of new models for the year. The Ace features a 114 inch wheelbase, a Red Seal engine, exclusive centrifugal clutch, full pressure lubrication, and optional deluxe colors and interiors.
Baker Motor Company president E P Baker says the business will stay at its Broadway and Ninth Street site. Most personnel will be retained and Dodge Plymouth customers will receive the same high quality service. An important announcement for car owners and prospective buyers is expected soon.
Brett C. White former United States marshal of the district completes an eight year term and readies to return to El Paso. He waited in San Antonio for an annual rushed office report as Guy McNamara begins one week as the new marshal. White says his only regret is bidding farewell to friends made during two terms in office. He plans to run his El Paso drug store, a business started in 1900, after leaving the marshal service.
Dr. E C Nelson, a colored Hollywood physician and ex husband of Ziegfeld dancer Helen Worthing, sues Leo P Desmond for 100000 dollars claiming Nelson enticed Desmonds wife Margaret Fay Desmond away from their Freeport home. Desmond cites letters from Nelson praising love and affection and alleges June 28 desertion followed by their Hollywood reunion.
Governor W B Murray in a special message instructs the legislature that he will not grant a special session for considering repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. Both houses had passed resolutions asking consent for action on repeal to be taken up in a special session.
McAllen announces suspension of penalties on back taxes for 1952 and earlier. Taxpayers may pay by August this year without penalties or interest, under new city relief terms to reduce collection burdens.
Washington reports the Reconstruction Finance Corporation held talks on the Detroit banking situation but failed to decide the futures of the Guardian National Bank of Commerce and the First National Bank of Mal ity.
Visitors to the Century of Progress in Chicago can view all Ford car models and visit the Chicago factory branch. The Ford display at the Congress hotel on Michigan Boulevard runs throughout the fair with guides answering questions and free transportation to the Torrence Avenue plant where V-8 manufacturing is shown.
Kerrville officials report the season’s wool shipment to Boston reached 2,794,713 pounds. Schreiner Wool and Mohair Commission notes prices rose, ranchers urged to shear again in six months due to price advances.
About 1500 official application blanks for federal public works loans will be mailed from Washington to the South Texas chamber of commerce. Ray Leeman says the blanks go to cities counties and districts that filed preliminary surveys. A federal administrator appointment in Texas is expected next week. Mimeograph forms were mailed to aid preparation. Nearly 500 preliminary surveys request over 50 million dollars in aid.
Capt Verne Miller former deputy administrator of prohibition here arrived in San Antonio Saturday from Denver where he was when he was Miller hurried to Kerrville to his brother in the veterans hospital. He had gone to Denver to be with another World War veteran brother who is seriously ill. Miller draws disability compensation from World War I service. He owns a home at 1557 West Magnolia Avenue and is considering returning to Denver to be with family there.
Attorney General Cummings said a decision on bringing suits against United States Steel Corporation and the Aluminum Company of America under antitrust laws for alleged price fixing will be made within two or three months. The investigation into possible price fixing in steel and aluminum goods will proceed immediately.
LOCKHART July 8 Virginia Elias 40 a Mexican widow was jailed without bail in connection with the death of a newborn baby whose body was found near her home. She was charged with murder.
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