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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1932
Page
11
A small town correspondent system in Texas shows how state editors shoulder blame for errors. The piece notes how a state editor risks suits when a local correspondent misnames a telegraph incident and omits minor details, with Eleanor Rank Graham mentioned as part of the staff.
A reader from Donna Texas offers to serve as a news correspondent after learning the paper has no local representative. The letter asks for instructions and promises to provide items of interest. The piece also mentions Millicent Bates, known as Miss Cordova, arriving recently after a Havana appearance with dances and the Havana American.
The piece traces Millicent Bales a Toymer shu jet of Our Lady of the Lake col ze with a six year career dancing in Nealco Bulons and Cuba and vaudeville at Antell lan. She notes Latin audiences appreciate her Spen Kh daiees and says she will appear in Mexico City then sail to Hevana. A soap of marriage rumors surrounds her and a Madrid partner.
Fragmented OCR describes Landers auctioning land parcels and selling jigsaw puzzles while a Literary Drivers group is cited. It mentions a person with lipstick stained fingers, keying into wall forces and a damaged work site, with informal notes on puzzle quality and misaligned pieces.
WA Costin will speak on the habituation of the Prenety army during the week’s meeting of the Concypiia club at the Pridey hotel. The event at the Pinza hotel is slated for discussion and public address.
Wurzbach and Black faced new charges from Citizens' League speakers at Agnes Cotton school Blanco road meeting. Frost Woodhull charged Wurzbach with taking money from courthouse janitors to augment his campaign fund and read an affidavit backing the claim. Woodhull called the tactic machine politics and noted other critic remarks about local officials. Officials and candidates including Walter Tynan James Young Jr. and Joseph R. Hickman spoke on various county matters and campaign issues.
G R Fatio of Oklahoma family and secretary of the Seventh Day Adventists discussed true education at a conference encampment at Peacock Military Academy. He noted the church runs nine senior colleges, one junior college, and a total of 38 higher education institutions in the United States.
Major Douglas N. Lawley received the Order of the Purple Heart with a further Croix de Guerre and a French Army citation for bravery during World War I. The award followed his service with the detachment during the Champaign offensive in October 1918.
Detectives P. C. Hardesty and Ed Animeker await a claimant for a pricey shotgun found by Special Officer Leslie Waldrip in the weeds behind the old Masonic temple at NeVarro and Convent streets. A report from W. A. Schlosser mentions a clothesline issue, while H. G. Tabbered and Rossville, Texas, relate a stolen tenecen from a truck and bedding stolen from T. R. Gray’s home at 602 Mason Street. a suspect was named.
Members of allied forces for prohibition in San Antonio urge support only for dry political candidates. No presidential ticket endorsed yet. dry backers favor national and state offices. Milam Building HQ opened. Endorsed: Governor R. S. Sterling James V. Allred Clem Calhoun for attorney general George H. Sheppard for state comptroller Charles N. Shaver and L. A. Wood for superintendent of public instruction C. V. Terrell and Lee Satterwhite for railroad commissioner six-year term Olin Cutherson F C O Thompson and W Gregory Hatcher for railroad commissioner four-year term Ocle Speer William Pierson and J. E. B. Hickman for associate Justice of the Supreme Court W. Erskine Williams George B. Terrell E. G. Senter Pink Patrion for Congressman-at-large Place No. 1 B. D. Sartin J. H Cyclae Davis and Mrs. Phoee Wartler for congressman-at-large Place No. 2 Sterling P. Strang and A. H. Elbe for congressman-at-large Place No. 3
Boeme chamber of commerce members urged a Texas university Thursday to consider sites in the county for a 1,000,000 observatory. The university has studied sites in the Dain mountains and Baerne hills were praised for clear skies by secretary B. A. Cartwilent.
Republican candidate John F. Grant conferred with Postmaster P. G. Tuas at the federal building on Thursday and outlined plans for the party nominating convention on August 3. He met with local Republicans to discuss the campaign following the Democratic primary.
San Antonio members of the Harus Wumy in Washington were received too late to be sent ballots. County Clerk Jack F. Burlee announced Thursday. The election ended Tuesday night and Washington applications were not received here until Wednesday. About 150 applications were on hand.
Kiwanis of San Antonio invites members to hear James M. Todd deliver a report on the recent international canvass at the Gunter Hotel ballroom. Willetts Mre Clark and Edna Inne Bump will perform a musical program during the meeting on Friday.
In two mass meetings at Wood Park and Denver Heights fourteen speakers urged support for the Peoples ticket days before the county election. District Clerk Hart McCormick warned supporters not to be overconfident while J Franklin Spears attacked his opponent. Other candidates claimed inefficiencies and pledged reforms, including 24 hour office service and 20 percent cost cuts.
Deputies J C Musgrave and Raymond Griffith carried Jesus Vargas to Robert B Green hospital after a car crash one mile west of Converse. The injured man was found after no message was broadcast over the police radio system.
The San Antonio Light reports its homes for orphans appeal yielded results. Twelve children of various ages and backgrounds were offered homes within days of Miss Lucy Setters, executive secretary of the Child Protective Society, issuing the plea. Despite economic strains, new families stepped forward, and many children found placements.
Albert Buss and Paul Talley co chair the Junior Chamber of Commerce campaign urging Bexar county voters to go to the polls Saturday and cast ballots for state and county nominees in the races highlighted by the effort.
The third hiking candidate for governor Roger Q Evans of San Anlonin returned from a speaking tour of the state on schedule Tuesday night. He said he spoke 62 times in as many towns, never missed an appointment though he missed meals, slept on park benches, and kept expenses to a few pennies. He remained optimistic about making the run off and claimed strong support from voters and protest candidates.
Theft of articles from three cars was reported Thursday. Oscar Conrad of Wilson Hrals clothing and other items was taken from a car near the Alamo, B R Hammond had clothing stolen from a car in front of 222 West Craig Place, and Miss Monica Scheel’s truck on Market Plaza was bereft of a purse containing $12.
An encampment begins at Kerrville this Sunday with speakers including Dr. Joseph A. Warte of Detroit Dr Kenneth Foreman of Drvilson North Carolina Dr Paull Vesbls of New Haven Connecticut and Dr Homer McMillan of Alinta.
Immediate repairs are requested for the Uvalde and Northern railroad running to Camp Wood through cattle, sheep and goat territory. The appeal comes from J. W. Mutt, chairman of the local chamber of commerce, and was forwarded to WH. G. Thompson, vice president and traffic manager of the railroad, after flood damage halted service.
Corpus Christi mobilizes cotton pickers and within 20 days more demand is expected in other areas. A. W. Greene of the Federal Farm Labor Bureau says growers pay 60 cents per 100 pounds and sometimes provide transportation. The bureau, at 617 North Street, advises pickers to stay in touch with labor demands.
Three boys avoided the honor system at the Bexar County Home for Boys and fled. Superintendent Miss Rosy Green reported to Chief Probation Officer Ed Mabrity that the youths were taken into custody Wednesday. Two fled from Fort Worth and the third from Oklahoma. their fathers were alerted after learning their sons ran away during the night.
New Orleans dispatch reports the Fifth Circuit upheld a Northern Texas District Court ruling naming a special master and receiver for the Virginia Oil and Refining Company of Port Worth Texas. The case involved about 2000 stockholders and officers seeking jurisdiction over company affairs and concerned several million dollars in oil levees once deemed valueless.
Lieut Jahn Helms and Cadet D E Mushletsel represent the army in Leach tennis... at Weslington and returned to Randolph field Wednesday. They reported to Kelly field Thursday for training in the Advance Flying school and will be in the pursuit section.
A cooperative class in Spantat has been formed in San Antonio by members of the bushings trade and other professionals. T. 1 Koper is in charge of the organization work.
Five large insurers that left Texas after the Robertson law would return if the compulsory investment feature is removed. At a Gunter hotel meeting of the Association for Modification of the Robertson Law, Claude V. Birkhead, Herbert Kokernot, and C B Fowler spoke. They asserted eliminating the investment requirement would free millions for Texas homeowners, with taxes due if the firms resume operations.
Randolph Field will build a chapel on the army reservation with wings for Catholic and Protestant services at an estimated cost of $100.40. Congressman Richard M. Bleberg informed Maury Maverick, Dexar County tax collector, Thursday that $50,000 was appropriated and in the bill passed last Saturday awaiting Hoover's signature an additional $60,000. Plans include space for classrooms for young children on the reservation. Maverick and Rev. F. Ories of Selma began a movement months ago to secularize the chapel now under construction.
Miss Pansy Nichols of Austin has been elected executive secretary of the Texas Tuberculosis Association, per George H. Cruze executive secretary of the Hexar County Public Health Association, affiliated with the state tuberculosis organization. She succeeds J. E. Bracy of Austin who resigned last spring.
The pay elle county record calls editor candidate A L Z Bilox visiting San Antonio on Tuesday. He favors education reform and taxes, supports the Volstead Act provisions, and urges extending powers of federal loan banks to assist borrowers in Wintercoat relations.
San Antonio agents raided a North Street residence finding a concrete trap under a stove used to hide liquor. Ramona Williams, Ruth Goetz, and Alice Flores faced bonds of 500, 750, and 500 dollars as several suspects were detained after cops seized beer and whiskey during the raid.
Patterson, a Bexar county candidate for railroad commissioner, will end his campaign in Dallas Saturday after touring Texas since May. A lawyer by training, he has not held public office, but argues his industry experience as an independent operator will aid the commission in oil production issues. Also: George M. Rolph, 59, brother of Governor James Rolph, died at Stanford Hospital after a stroke.
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